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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



& Barry, of Rochester, N. Y. ; this, when grafted or budded on 

 stocks of the excelsior or Americana, at a height of about six feet, 

 forms a very pleasing ornamental dwarf tree. 



Of the other varieties, such as the crisp-leaved, gold blotched- 

 leaved, etc., we have no occasion here to speak, because they are 

 Qnly desirable in very large collections, where variety rather 

 than beauty or usefulness is the object sought. 



Fig. 1. American Ash. 



The Flowering Ash ornus Europaus is a tree of an entire 

 different habit. While an ash, and growing rapidly when 

 young, it soon appears to have become mature, and seldom 

 gets above twenty to thirty feet high, with a round ball-like 

 head of about fifteen to twenty feet diameter. Its clean foliage 

 and regular habit, together with the numerous white flowers 

 which it bears in May or June, according to the climate in 



