. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 306 Junior Naturalist Monthly. How many colors can you find as you look at one shrub closely? 2. Break a live winter twig of sumac. A milky sap oozes out. Is this sap sticky like resin? Wet or dry, sumac branches make the best of camp-fires. Why? 3. Look carefully at the same twig. See how very hairy it is. Notice the silky buds and the narrow, circular leaf-scar that nearly surrounds each. Some day j^ou will find that the sumac hides its leaves beneath
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 306 Junior Naturalist Monthly. How many colors can you find as you look at one shrub closely? 2. Break a live winter twig of sumac. A milky sap oozes out. Is this sap sticky like resin? Wet or dry, sumac branches make the best of camp-fires. Why? 3. Look carefully at the same twig. See how very hairy it is. Notice the silky buds and the narrow, circular leaf-scar that nearly surrounds each. Some day j^ou will find that the sumac hides its leaves beneath the base of the leaf Fig. 1.—Pumpkins and squashes in the school-room. Other Sumacs. Nearly all boys and girls know the staghorn sumac, but I doubt whether you are familiar with some of its near relations. One or two of these are poisonous. You ought to know the poisonous forms that you may avoid them. Here is a brief description of the different kinds in winter. The staghorn sumac is a large shrub with velvety-hairy branches. The fruit or seed part is terminal, i. e., on the end of the branches, and is composed of a dense cluster of red, hairy berries. Fig. 3 and 4 (1). Smooth sumac is often a large shrub but the branches are smooth. The fruit is terminal like that of the staghorn sumac but does not make such a stiff, dense cluster. Fig. 4 (4).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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