DECIDUOUS TREES. 
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the road-side at Mount Desert Island, Maine, would suppose it to 
be a peculiarly umbrageous and elegant small tree. Height twenty 
to thirty feet. 
THE ANDROMEDA OR SORREL TREE. 
arborea {Lyonia arborea of Loudon). 
Andromeda 
Fig. 152. 
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This is one of the prettiest additions to our stock of small 
ornamental trees. Although a native of 
the States from Pennsylvania to Florida, it 
is scarcely yet known in most home^ 
grounds. In the southern States it be¬ 
comes from forty to sixty feet high; in 
England ten to twenty feet; probably 
twenty to forty feet in the latitude of New 
York. It forms an umbrella-shaped top 
with tapering branches. Fig. 152 repre¬ 
sents its common form from six to eight 
years after planting. The leaves resemble those of the common 
elder in form, color, and abundance. The flowers are in large 
terminal panicles of many racemes, white, in June and July, and 
cover the head of the tree in plumy profusion. The panicles of 
seeds that succeed them also attract attention by the novelty of 
their appearance, and their great abundance. The foliage turns to 
a fine crimson in October. The name “ sorrel tree ” is given to it 
in consequence of the pleasant acidity of its leaves. Away from 
the mild climate of the seaboard, in the northern States, it should 
be treated as a half-hardy tree. 
THE SUMACH. Rhus. 
The species of this family vary so widely that some of them 
would not be supposed to have any relationship to the others if 
judged by their general appearance. The purple fringe tree, for 
instance, with its single clean-cut leaves, and rounded head, is the 
