It is not generally known that the Mist tree, Rhus Cotinus, is to a great extent, a dioecious plant, and that it is the female only which has the beard, for which chiefly the plant is valued. Of late years it has been customary to raise plants from seeds, as they can be propagated more cheaply than by layers. But many of such plants are male and have but little or no beard. This paragraph is suggested by the sight of a very beautiful specimen near Horticultural Hall, in Fairmount Park. The whole of the very large plant was a mass of mist, of a pretty purple tint. Such plants should be selected for propagation by layers.

This is commonly known by this name, though sometimes as Green Fringe, but in England the common name is Wig-tree. Botanically it is Rhus cotinus.