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together with other woody members of this family. The 
tanners’-tree family comes next with a single representative, 
the tanners’-tree, from the Mediterranean region. Follow- 
ing this is the box family, represented by a number of forms 
of the box-tree, from Europe, Asia and Japan; the wood of 
the box-tree is highly prized for wood-engraving, on account 
of its hardness and close fine grain, and it takes a fine polish. 
A few steps further on is the sumac family, to which belongs 
the common poison ivy, so frequent in and around 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 sumacis a stately shrub from China. The 
European and the American smoke-trees (Cotznus) are rela- 
tives of the sumacs; the former is sometimes 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, we find the 
holly family on the nearest point, shown by the serrate holly 
and the crenate holly, both from Japan; the European 
holly is grown in the conservatories and the American holly 
at the arboretum. 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 Zuonymus; the European staff- 
tree, the burning-bush of the eastern United States, the 
winged spindle-tree of eastern Asia, 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 must be looked for in the arboretum, 
but here are specimens of the Ginnala maple, from northern 
ChinaandJapan. Immediately beyond this is the bladder-nut 
family, represented by species of the bladder-nut (Staphy- 
lea), both from the New and the Old World. Following 
the path to the west, we come to the buckeye family, repre- 
sented here by the small-flowered buckeye, from the south- 
eastern United States; many of the buckeyes and horse- 
