NOTES ON FOREST TREES. 177 



sides on one tree and pale on the under side of the other, 

 I could detect no such differences, but concluded that good 

 typical specimens of both species could be collected from 

 the same tree. 



Fraxinus americaxa ( WJiite Ash) is a fine timber tree 

 growing to a height of 60 or 70 feet without a limb, and 

 with a diameter of 2 feet and holding this size for 30 feet. 

 Of course, such trees are found only in deep forests where 

 the}' are surrounded by other tall trees. 



Fraxinus sambucifolia (Black Ash) grows equally 

 large. Near Schuyler Falls, growths of these trees were 

 seen several hundred in number and nearly all 6 feet in 

 circumference. 



Fraxinus pubescens (Bed Ash) is a scarcer tree ; the 

 only locality where it was found in abundance was on the 

 shore of Moon Lake in Ellenburgh where it grows larger 

 than either of the other species of Ash. 



One of the trees measured was 9 feet in circumference, 

 Another which was cut was 2J feet in diameter and 100 

 circles of annual growth were counted on the end of the 

 log. 



Ulmus Americana (Common Elm) is abundant, and 

 with few exceptions is seldom over 2 feet in diameter but 

 it is often 80 feet in height. On the side of one of the 

 foot hills near Lyon Mt., a tree was measured that was 21 

 feet in circumference at 7 feet above the ground : it was 

 40 feet to the first limb and as near as could be judged 

 was 100 feet high. It is so situated that it can be seen 

 from five different townships though it is nearly surrounded 

 by mountains. The owner of the land offered the tree 

 for the Museum but it could not be cut and teamed ex- 

 cepting in the winter as there was much swamp land sur- 

 rounding it. 



Crat^gus coccinea (Scarlet J mited Thorn) is very 



