With most things commercially, as soon as demand is known, supply is forthcoming. It is the demand for berried plants for indoor work which has, no doubt, brought this into the market. In Covent Garden we recently saw a good supply of sprays of it, with its elegant, fern-like foliage, and long sprays of ivory-white, rose-tinted berries. In California,. Mexico, and South America it grows into fine shade trees. It belongs to Anacardiaceae, and its leaves are charged with a resinous gas, which causes the leaflets to dart about like fishes when fresh plucked and cast into water.

In addition to the above from the Garden, it may be noted that some of the American species of Rhus - or the Sumachs - have in some degree the property in the leaves of darting on the surface of the water like fishes. The leaves must be cut into cross-sections. The tree is commonly used as a shade tree in California, and perhaps the people in that section might be able to send England all the berries they could use.