220 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



tall evergreens and lower shrubs. The variety 

 this plant affords in the autumn, by the gay 

 tints of its foliage, is not surpassed in beauty 

 by any shrub we possess, as it is sometimes 

 quite purple, and at others of a fine red, 

 before it changes to its last feuillemort colour. 

 It is one of the trees that is particularly hand- 

 some to look down upon. 



This shrub, as well as the elm-leaved su- 

 mach, is used for tanning leather ; and the 

 roots are used in medicine in Virginia and 

 Carolina. 



The sumach sends up numerous suckers, 

 by which means it is so easily increased, that 

 there is little occasion to sow the seed when 

 once a single plant is obtained. The Hortus 

 Kewensis notices eleven species of this plant 

 that will endure our winters, and nine species 

 that require the greenhouse, and one the 

 stove. 



