WHITE ASH (Fraxinus Americana, Linn.)- 75 to 125 feet. 

 Large, stately tree with tall trunk and pyramidal or round head 

 of erect, stout branches, ending with pale twigs, roughened by 

 projecting, roundish leaf scars, and plump, leathery buds. 

 Bark brown or gray, criss-crossed with shallow furrows to 

 form diamond-shaped plates. Wood brown, tough, elastic, 

 coarse-grained, heavy, hard, not durable in soil, used for 

 agricultural implements, vehicle frames, tool-handles, oars, 

 stairs, fuel. Leaves opposite, compound, with usually 7- 

 pointed white-lined leaflets on slender stalk, 8 to 12 inches 

 long, turning purple and yellow. Flowers May, before 

 leaves, dioecious; sterile trees bearing crowded, purplish 

 stamen clusters; fertile trees, racemes of greenish pistils. 

 Fruit, clustered, fiat, pointed seeds, each with lance-like, flat 

 wing, notched at tip. Dist.: Newfoundland to Manitoba; 

 south to Florida; west to Arkansas and Texas. Preferred 

 habitat, deep, rich woodlands. An admirable street and shade 

 tree. 



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