1228 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Vernon Arms, in Pleasant Row, Pentonville, has the branches trained on horizontal trellises, at the 
height of about 7 ft. from the ground, over 28 seats, and 14 tables, covering a space 36 ft. long by 
21 ft. wide. (Gard. Mag., vol. x. p. 385.) At York House, Twickenham, there is a weeping ash 
which has been 50 years planted, and is 15 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk is 12 in., and of the head 
21ft. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, there is a tree, 50 years planted, and 22 ft. high, the trunk 
1 ft. lin. in diameter, and the head 28 ft. In Somersetshire, at Hinton House, there is a tree, 20 
years planted, which is 19 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 25 ft. In Wiltshire, 
at Bowood, a weeping ash, 35 years planted, is 20 ft. high, with the diameter of the head 30 ft. In 
Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, a tree 22 ft. high has a head 24ft. in diameter. In Derbyshire, at 
Chatsworth, there is a weeping ash of large size, which the Duke of Devonshire had transplanted from 
the nursery of Messrs. Wilson, near Derby. he tree, according to the neve was 50 years 
old when it was removed, and, including the earth about its roots weighed nearly 8 tons. (See Gard. 
Mag., vol. x. p. 386.) In Ireland, in the environs of. Dublin, there are several good specimens, the 
best of which seems to be in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, which, after being 35 years planted, is 
35 ft. high, with a head 13 ft. in diameter, 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the neighbourhood of London, are, 2 years’ 
seedlings, 3s. per 1000: transplanted plants, 1 ft. or more in height, 10s. 
per 1000; 2 ft. high, 20s.; and 3 ft. high, 40s.: and the varieties are, in general, 
from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. each. At Bollwyller, the varieties of the common ash 
are from 1 franc to | franc and 5 cents each; and at New York they are 50 
cents each. 
¥ 2. F. (g.) wETEROPHY’LLA Vah/. The various-leaved Ash. 
Identification. Vah) Enum., 1. p. 53.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 54, ; 
Synonymes. F. simplicifolia Willd. Sp., 4. p. 1098., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, Berl. Baumz., p. 121 
t. 3. f.3., Smith Eng. Bot., t. 2476.; F. monophylla Desf, Arb., 1. p.102.; F. simplicifdlia Hort. ; 
F. excélsior @ diversifolia Ait.: F. excélsior var, ¢ Lam. Dict., 2. p. 554.; F. excélsior 6 hetero- 
phylla Dec. ; F. integrifdlia and diversifdlia Hort. 
Engravings. Berl. Baum., p. 121. t. 3, f. 5.; Eng. Bot., t. 2476.; our jig. 1050. ; and the plate of this 
tree in our last Volume. 
Distinctive Char., &c. eaves simple or trifoliate, dentately serrated. Samara 
oblong-lanceolate, 1 in. long, obtuse and emarginate at the apex. Leaves 
usually simple, but sometimes , 
with 3 or 5 leaflets, 3—4 in. 
long, ovate, subcordate, or acu- 
minate at the base and apex. 
Branches dotted. Buds black. 
Perhaps only avariety of I’. ex- 
césior. (Don’s Miill., iv. p. 54.) 
A tree, from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high, 
flowering in April and May. It 
is a native of Europe; in Eng- 
land,in woods. There is a tree 
of this variety at Syon, 61 ft. 
high; onein the Edinburgh Bo- 
tanic Garden, 34 ft. high; and one 
in Higgins’s Nursery, Tipperary, 
which, 25 years planted, is 40 ft. 
high. Some botanists consider yi Ai” _f 
this kind of ash as a species; but ' ty 1050 
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder states TW) AY) 
that Mr. M‘Nab, of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, sowed seeds produced 
by the tree in that garden, supposed to have been originally planted by 
Sutherland, and found that the plants had pinnated leaves; and Mr. Sin- 
ning, garden inspector of Poppilsdorf, near Bonn, sowed seeds of the 
common ash, which he gathered in a distant forest, many of which came 
up with simple leaves. Nearly 1000 of these plants were transplanted, and 
left to become trees; when they were about 8 ft. high, above 20 of them 
were observed to have simple leaves, and almost as many to have only 3 
leaflets; though occasionally they showed a greater number. (Allgemeine 
Garten Zeitung, vol. iii. p.6.) It is curious to observe the number of 
different names which have been applied to this variety of ash, by different 
botanists; and instructive to remark that the majority of them have con- 
sidered it a distinct species. When such a very obviously distinct variety 
as this has received from botanists so many names, what may we not 
expect in the case of obscure varieties ? 

