Sentence:  Often, on descending into the narrow valleys, we found a little spot of cultivation, a garden, or a field hedged round with <WSD>shumacs</WSD>, rhododendrons, and azalias, and a cottage covered with roses. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus "Rhus" and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the (elm-leaved sumac), (Sicilian sumac), or (tanner's sumac) ("Rhus coriaria").