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smaller than those of the Oregon ash, being usually one to two inches long, 

 while the winged fruit is about one inch long. 



Range — California to the Columbia River. 



Use — Furniture, tool handles, etc. 



OREGON ASH. 

 (F. Oreijona Nutt.) 



Mostly contined to the westward of the Cascade Range in this state. It 

 favors a mild tempei-ature and a humid or subhumid climate and usually 

 occurs as a medium-sized tree in the northern part of the state, but towards 

 the south, particularly in Curry and Coos counties, it becomes a magnificent 

 tree, ranging in height from seventy to one hundred and twenty feet by 

 three to six feet in diameter. The leaflets are oblong-lanceolate, two to 

 four inches long, and the winged fruit one to one and one-half inches long. 

 The bark is smooth on the young tree but becomes rough and irregularly 

 checked as the tree matures. The wood is lirm, straight-grained, takes a 

 a good polish, and is extensively used in every furniture factory in the state. 



Bange — California to the lower valley of Fraser River, British Columbia. 



Use — Furniture, inside finishing, stair posts, etc. 



IF WE KNOW. 



When the year has found its freedom from the bondage of the frost. 

 And when memories of winter in a tide of life are lost. 

 Then the heart awakes to answer Nature's impulse and rejoice 

 If we know the hidden meanings and the music of her voice. 



There are voices in the tree-tops — we may hear them as we pass — 

 There are whisperings of summer in the springing of the grass; 

 There's a noble sweep of triumph where the hawk is on the wing, 

 And the perfume of the ordiard is the spirit of the spring. 



Oh, the pulsing warmth of waking, how it permeates the air — 

 ' Tis the anodyne of hope, that steals the bitterness from care. 

 We may lay aside our burdens in the glory of our choice, 

 If we win the lieart of Nature and will hearken to her voice. 



Albert Bigelow Paine. 

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