n6 LONDON TREES 



that found on the horns of a young stag. It is an 

 excellent small-growing tree for town planting, and 

 may be seen in many of the parks and gardens. 



The Venetian Sumach (R. Cotinus) also succeeds 

 well in the most smoky parts of the Metropolis, and 

 is highly ornamental when in flower or fruit, the 

 feathery inflorescence rendering it of quaint and 

 curious appearance. 



Both species are to be found thriving satisfactorily 

 in most of the parks, and even in the more confined 

 spaces and where the atmosphere is tainted with 

 impurities they grow robust and strong. By the 

 Outer Circle Road at Charlbert Street in Regent's 

 Park there is a noble clump of these trees, which 

 impart quite a tropical appearance to the shrubbery 

 in which they are growing. But the Sumach is to 

 be met with in most of the parks and squares of the 

 Metropolis, as in St. Paul's Churchyard, plentifully in 

 the central parks, and in many of the dusty, confined 

 East End gardens. On account of its singular appear- 

 ance, the Sumach always attracts attention. 



R. Osbeckii is also a good town tree, and may be 

 seen in a thriving condition in several of the parks, 

 where in 1918 it flowered freely. 



The Sumachs are readily propagated from root- 

 offsets, which spring up freely around the parent stem, 

 especially when this is growing in a free and open 

 or cultivated soil. In a young state the Sumach and 

 Ailanthus are readily confused, being much alike in 

 foliage, but the latter is of far larger size and more 

 rapid growth, and never throws out suckers from the 

 roots. 



