Sumach, 
Rhus aromatia. Narurar Orver: Axacardiacee—Sumach Family. 
*~NOWN familiarly as Sumach, the Rhus aromatica is a pretty 
shrub from two to six feet high, growing on open lands in- 
Canada and the United States, sometimes covering acres of 
ground if left unmolested. The flowers are yellowish, and are 
i) Bia rather unattractive in comparison with the berries when 
LD ripened, which look like so many crimson plumes waving in 
the air. 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 may be used in tan- 
ning, and the berries to create a dye; the Rhus typhina, the wood of 
=Y 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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Splendoy. 
LORAL 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. 
HE bright sun compacts the precious stone, RIGHT and glorious is that revelation 
Imparting radiant luster like his own; Writ all over this great world of ours 
He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue, Making evident our own creation, 
And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue. In these stars of earth, these golden flowers. 
—Sir R. Blackmore. —Longfellow, 
ND wide a splendor streamed through all the sky; 
O’er sea and land one soft, delicious blush, 
That touched the gray rocks lightly, tenderly; 
it A transitory flush. —Celia Thaxter. ’ 
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