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Grapes, the climbing, poisonous Sumach, (_Rhus toxicodendron, _) and the vine-like Cinque-foil, which transforms withered, naked trunks into green columns, Bignonias, with their brilliant scarlet trumpet-flowers, are the most remarkable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Sumach is the ground up leaves and twigs of the _Rhus coraria_ growing in Southern Europe.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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I have observed that the Smoke-tree, which is a Sumach from
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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Sumach and logwood admit of only about one-half or less of the green copperas that galls will take, to bring out the maximum amount of black colour.
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Both the leaves and the excrescences on the leaves of the smooth Sumach (Rhus glabra), growing along streams in the upper districts, are very rich in tannin, and should be used.
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See also Oak ( "Quercus") and Sumach ( "Rhus"), in this volume.
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Sumach is exported largely from Sicily for tanning goat and sheepskins.
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Sumach, fennel, and pine bark are much used in Europe.
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Sumach and Japan-cedar, which should have been neglected for thirty years.
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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'Ifriyá round the north and east of the White Mountain, we fell into the Wady Simákh (of "Wild Sumach"), that drains the great gap between the Pinnacles and the Buttresses of the
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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