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New York City; here are the fragrant sumac, the mountain 
sumac, and the smooth, or scarlet, sumac, all from the 
eastern United States; Osbeck’s sumac is a stately shrub 
from China. The European and the American smoke-trees 
(Cotinus) are relatives of the sumacs; the former is some- 
times called the wig-tree, on account of the flower-clusters, 
which become white and feathery in fruit; a dye is obtained 
from it which is called young fustic. 
Crossing the transverse path to the triangle, the holly 
family is on the nearest point, shown by Siebold’s holly 
and the Japanese holly, both from Japan, and the American 
holly; the European holly is grown in conservatory range 2. 
The Virginia winter-berry, of the eastern United States, 
bears its bright red berries far into the winter. On the 
opposite corner of the triangle is the staff-tree family, 
illustrated by many forms of Euonymus; the European 
spindle tree, the burning-bush of eastern North America, 
the winged spindle-tree of China and Japan, and Bunge’s 
spindle-tree of the Amur region are shown. Crossing the 
path to the north of the triangle we come to the maple 
family; most of the maples are trees, so they must be looked 
for in the arboretum, but here are specimens of the Ginnala 
maple, from Manchuria, northern China, and Japan. 
Immediately beyond this is the bladder-nut family, 
represented by species of the bladder-nut (Staphylea), 
both from the New and the Old World. Following 
the path to the west, we come to the buckeye family, 
represented here by the small-flowered buckeye, from the 
southeastern United States; many of the buckeyes and 
horse-chestnuts are trees, and are grown in the arboretum. 
Following this is the soapberry family, with the genus 
Xanthoceras, a native of northern China, as a representative. 
At some distance from the path to the left is the buckthorn 
family; the most familiar plant here is the New Jersey tea 
or red root, of eastern North America; its leaves were 
formerly used as a substitute for tea; the jujube, an in- 
habitant of the Mediterranean region and temperate Asia, 
