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lil)US aroiliatita. Natural Ouder: Anacardiacecc — Stimach Family. 



^Ff rXOWN tamiliarly as Sumach, the Rhus aromatica is a pretty 

 shrub from two to six feet high, growing on open lands in 

 L'anada and the United States, sometimes covering acres of 

 i; round if left unmolested. The flowers are yellowish, and are 

 lather unattracti\e in comparison with the berries when 

 lipened, which look like so many crimson plumes waving in 

 \W. They possess an acid taste, and are not poisonous. The 

 Venetian Sumach is said by Nuttall to grow plentifully in Arkansas. 

 The Italians use it in preparing leather. Among other species of the 

 Sumach are the Rhus glabra, the bark of which maj' be used in tan- 

 ning, and the berries to create a dye; the Rhus typhina, the wood of 

 which is aromatic, and produces a yellow dye; and the Poison Sumach, 

 the appearance of which is similar to the above, except that it is perhaps 

 larger and inhabits swampy places. It is intensely poisonous, even to the touch, 

 and sometimes imparts its pernicious influence to the surrounding atmosphere. 



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PLORAL apostles! that in dewy splendor 



*■ Weep without sin and blush without a crime, 



O, may I deeply learn and ne'er surrender 



Your love sublime! —Horace Smith. 



'T'HE bright sun compacts the precious s 

 Imparting radiant luster like his own; 

 He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue, 

 And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly b 



■pRIGHT and glorious is that revelation 

 ^ Writ all over this great world of ours 

 Making evident our own creation, 



In these stars of earth, these golden flowers 

 — Loti^fe/lozv. 



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AND wide a splendor streamed through all the sky; 

 ^ O'er sea and land one soft, delicious blush. 

 That touched the gray rocks lightly, tenderly; 



A transitory flush. -Celia Tlmxter. 



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