CHAP. LXXV. OLEA‘CEX. FRA’XINUS. 1217 
neighbourhood. The ash is particularly abundant in this part of 
Northumberland.” Mr. Sydney having kindly sent us grafts of the 
Cowpen ash, we have distributed them among the nurserymen, and 
plants have been raised from them in the Fulham Nursery. Mr. 
George M‘ Leish, a correspondent of the Gardener’s Magazine, informs 
us that there are a number of ash trees growing out of the rocks 
immediately below the Rumbling Bridge, on the Duke of Athol’s 
estate, a few miles from Dunkeld, which are probably not above 
30 years of age, which have weeping branches, that droop almost to 
the surface of the water. Whether these trees belong to the com- 
mon weeping ash, to the Cowpen variety or variation, or to the 
Kincairney ash, to be next described, remains to be ascertained. 
* F.e. 3 Kincairnie, the Kincairney Ash, has the spray alternately 
pendulous, and rigidly upright, and thus forms a tree of fantastic 
shape. The original specimen grows on the estate of Mungo 
Murray, Esq., in Kincairney, in the parish of Caputh, near Dun- 
keld, Perthshire. It is 46 ft. high ; the trunk, at 12 ft. from the 
ground, is 3ft. in diameter; and the diameter of the head, in 
the widest part, is 74 ft. It appears to have been first brought into 
notice by Mr. Gorrie, who sent us a drawing and description of it 
in 1833 (see Gard. Mag., vol. x. p. 384.) ; and who, having at that 
time directed the attention of Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull of 
Perth to its propagation, they, we are informed, have now plants 
of it for sale. 
¥ F. e. 4 aérea Willd. Enum., p. 1059.; F.atrea Pers. Ench.,ii. p. 604., 
Lodd, Cat., ed. 1836; the golden-barked Ash; has the bark of the 
trunk and branches yellow and dotted; and the leaflets sessile, lance- 
olate, unequally serrated, acuminated, cuneated at the base, and 
glabrous. It is conspicuous, particularly in winter, not only from 
the yellow colour of its bark, but from the curved, contorted cha- 
racter of its branches, which somewhat resemble the horns of an 
animal. 
* F. e. 5 atirea péndula has the bark yellow, and the branches as pendu- 
lous, and of as vigorous growth, as those of F.e. péndula. There 
are fine specimen plants of this variety in the New Cross Nursery, 
and in the Marylebone Nursery, New Road. 
£ F. e. 6 crispa; F.crispa Bosc; F’. atrovirens Desf. Arb.,i. p. 104. ; has 
the leaves dark green, crumpled, and curled. The darkness of the 
green of the leaves is remarkable; and this and their crumpled ap- 
pearance, combined with the rigid stunted character of the whole 
plant, render it a striking object. The largest tree we know of, 
of this variety, is at Farnham Castle, Surrey ; where, in 50 years, it 
has attained the height of 15ft.; the diameter of the trunk 4 in., 
and of the head 5ft. In Jersey, in Saunders’s Nursery, there is a 
tree, which, in 12 years, has attained the height of 8 ft.; the diameter 
of the trunk 3in., and of the head 3 ft. 
¥ F. e. 7 jaspideaWilld., Lodd. Cat., ed.1836, the striped-barked Ash, has 
the bark of the trunk and branches streaked with reddish-white. There 
are specimens at West Dean, in Surrey, 9 years planted, and 21 ft. 
high ; at Eaton Hall, in Cheshire, 14 years planted, and 16 ft. high ; 
and at Ampton Hall, in Suffolk, 18 years planted, and 20 ft. high. 
¥ F. e. 8 purpurascens Descemet, the purple-barked Ash, has the bark 
purple. It was found in a bed of seedlings by M. Descemet; and 
there are plants of it in the collection under his care at Odessa. 
¥ F.e. 9 argéntea Desf. Arb., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, the silver-striped- 
leaved Ash.—Leaves variegated with white. 
¥ F. e. 10 litea, the yellow-edge-leafleted Ash, has the leaflets edged with 
yellow. 
+ F. e. 11 erdsa Pers. Ench., i. p. 604., has the leaflets erosely toothed. 
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