. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. ^ Rt)UB aromattca. Natural Order: Anacardiacece — 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 rather unattractive in compari
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. ^ Rt)UB aromattca. Natural Order: Anacardiacece — 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 rather unattractive in comparison with the berries when 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 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 ^JtI]^tlh]JJ|« T7LORAL 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. 'T^HE bright sun compacts the precious stone, Imparting radiant luster like his own; He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue, And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue. —Sir R. Biackmore. r) RIGHT and glorious is that revelation Writ all over this great world of ours Making evident our own creation, In these stars of earth, these golden flowers. —Longfellow, AND wide a splendor streamed through all the sky; O'er sea and land one soft, delicious blush, That touched the gray rocks ligh
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