FOREST ADORNMENT 
berries; and closely interwoven branch- 
lets stuck about with thorns. The red- 
bud, which I have already mentioned, 
holds its little bunches of flowers so 
lightly that they look as if they had 
been carried there by the wind and had 
caught along the twigs and branches. 
Very different from these, yet no less 
interesting in its way, is the staghorn 
sumach, which is of erratic growth 
and bears stately pyramids of velvety 
flowers of a dark crimson-maroon. 
There is a fine contrast, too, where the 
serviceberry, with early delicate white 
blossoms, blooms among the evergreens 
and the opening leaves of spring. 
Another word about the West. The 
undergrowth of the northerly portion 
of the Pacific coast region has al- 
ready been referred to; but there ex- 
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