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DECIDUOUS TREES. 



some erect variety of ash, from seven to ten feet above the ground, 

 and becomes a tree of considerable size, and usually of more 

 breadth than height. It is inferior in beauty to the following weep- 

 ing variety of the ash. 



THE GOLDEN ASH, F. aurea, AND THE WEEPING GOLDEN 

 ASH, F. aurea pendula, are warmly commended by Sargent, the 

 latter as "quite as hardy, and a great improvement on the old 

 weeping ash." 



THE AUCUBA-LEAVED ASH, F. aucubafolia, is a variegated-leaved 

 variety that is quite striking in the spring and early summer, when 

 the yellow spots on its leaves give it the appearance of a tree in 

 flower. It is apt to lose its beauty in the heat of summer. 



THE GOLD-SPOTTED-LEAVED ASH, F. punctata, is another varie- 

 gated-leaved variety, considered by some superior in the brightness 

 of its colors to the foregoing. 



THE VARIEGATED WILLOW-LEAVED, F. salidfolia variegata, has 

 brightly-marked white and green leaves in the spring, which, how- 

 ever, turn to a dirty brown in the summer. 



There are many new varieties in the great nurseries, that 

 are not yet sufficiently grown to enable one to judge of their 

 merits. 



THE ASH-LEAVED NEGUNDO, ASH-LEAVED MAPLE, AND Box 

 ELDER. Negundo fraxinifolium. Acer negundo. This pretty na- 

 tive tree, found growing on the 

 mountains of the middle States, 

 is one of the small trees well 

 adapted to small grounds, and still 

 but little known. It is allied to 

 both the maple and the ash fami- 

 lies, having seeds like the former, 

 and pinnate leaves, as shown by 

 our Fig. 112, like the latter; or 

 more still like those of the elder 

 family. The leaves are composed 

 of five leaflets on a long petiole, 

 and are of a bluish or pale-green 



FIG. 112. 



