STUDIES OF TREES IN WINTER 



rowed, like that of the white ash. Leaf-scars 

 opposite. 



The red ash is much less coarsely moulded 

 than the white ash, and in its leafless season, 

 particularly, the contrast between its branches 

 and those of the white ash is plainly seen. 

 The fissures in the bark of the red ash seem a 

 little finer and nearer together than those of 

 the white ash bark on trees of the same age. 

 The soft down on the recent shoots remains 

 through the winter; and this, with the finer 

 twigs, which branch more frequently, and the 

 smaller, darker buds, makes the tree easily dis- 

 tinguished from the white ash in winter, 

 more easily even than in summer. 



The staminate flowers of the red ash are 

 afflicted by mites in the same way as those of 

 the white ash, producing unsightly clusters 

 which hang on the tree all winter. 



The wood is much less valuable than that of 

 the white ash. 



Black Ash ^ slender tree, 40 to 70 feet 



Fraxinus nigra high. Trunk dark gray, often 

 disfigured with knobs. The buds are black, 

 and the young shoots greenish. Coarse twigs ; 

 opposite leaf scars. 



The black ash is distinguished from the 

 white and red ashes by its darker buds and by 



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