Ormis anicricana, 

 THE AMERICAN FLOWERING ASH. 



Synonymcs. 



Fraxinus americana, 



Omus americana, 



Ornier d'Amcrique, 

 Amerikanische Bluhende-Esche, 

 Orno americano, 

 American Flowering Ash, 



LiNN^ns, Species Plantarum. 



PuRsii, Flora America' Septentrionalis. 



Don, ISIiller's DiciKjnary. 



Loudon, Arboretum Bnlannicum. 



France. 



Germany. 



Italy. 



Britain and Anglo- America. 



Engravings. Loudon, Arboretum Brilannicum, ii., fig. 1070; and the figures below. 



Specific Characters Leaves with 2 5 pairs of oblong or ovate-acuminated, shining, serrated leaflets, eac^ 

 3 5 in. long, and 2 in. broad, and having the larger veins rather villous, glaucous, and paler beneath, 

 the odd one rather cordate. Flowers with petals, disposed in terminal panicles. Branches brownish - 

 gray. Buds brown. Samara narrow, obtuse, mucronate. Don, Miller's Diet. 



Descriptio7i. 



vj.^^kYiFi Ornns americana is a beautiful 



^ i-| p" [^ tree, growing to a height of thirty 



|)? Li ^ '^r forty feet, and flowering in 



^^X^l April and May. The diff"erence 



between this sort and the manna ash of Europe is so very 

 sHght, that doubts are entertained by some, of there being 

 but one species. It is a native of North America, and was 

 introduced into Britain in 1820, where it is cultivated for 

 ornament, and is higiily prized. Tiiere are plants of it 

 in the Horticultural Society's garden, at London, and in 

 the arboretum at Kew, where, in the last-named place, it is grafted on the Frax- 

 inus excelsior; and the point where the scion was inserted in the stock, is said to 

 have enlarged nearly as much as the stock itself, a proof that the American flow- 

 ering ash is a more robust-growing tree than the Omus europaea, which was also 

 engrafted in a similar manner, but did not increase in the same ratio with the 

 stock. When no other mode can be obtained of rendering a tree gardenesque, 

 Mr. Loudon suggests, that, in order to give the trunk an architectural base, a slow- 

 growing species may be grafted on one that is more vigorous ; and that the appli- 

 cation of the art of grafting might be worth adopting for certain ornamental trees 

 to be planted in exposed situations ; for an architectural base to a tree is strongly 

 expressive of its stability. 



