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quite as hardy as and a great improvement upon the old Weep- 

 ing ash. 



F. salicifoUa (Willow-leaved ash). This is another of those 

 remarkable thin cut-leaved trees, of which we have specimens in 

 the beech, horse-chestnut and even the oak. This is a most 

 rapid and robust grower, and would, undoubtedly, be taken foi 

 a willow, by persons not very familiar with trees and though 

 not particularly handsome, still it is well deserving a place in 

 all collections, where striking and curious plants are desired. 



F. globosa viridis or myrti folia (Myrtle-leaved ash). A seed- 

 ling, if we mistake not, of Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry, from 

 whom we procured the plant some years ago ; is when grafted 

 standard high, a very pretty effective little tree, with a globular 

 head of small close, dark green foliage like the myrtle, and 

 comes in very well, standing by itself in small pleasure grounds, 

 or peeping out of low masses of shrubs. 



F. argentea alba. A very singular variety, with leaves 

 entirely white, and when planted with the aucitba folia, the 

 leaves of which are quite golden, producing a remarkable effect, 

 like gigantic flowering plants. We do not know the history of 

 this singular tree, and have only seen it at Mr. Daniel Brincker- 

 hofF's, in this neighborhood, who has the impression he procured 

 it some years since, from Mr. Rivers of the Sawbridgeworth 

 nurseries in England. It differs from the varieties known in 

 the English nurseries as F. argentea, from the peculiar 

 whiteness of its foliage ; the argentea being generally streaked 

 with green, though it may be a sport of this tree. It is apt to 

 suffer very much in June from the insects which, apparently 

 attracted by the white foliage at night, greedily devour the 

 leaves, though all the other ashes standing by escape un- 

 touched. 



F. lentiscifolia and F. lenlisci folia pendula, are both desira- 

 ble trees, with neat, narrow foliage, and rapid growth. The 

 Pendulous-branched we have found the most rapid of the ashes. 

 The Weeping black and Gold-striped weeping, both pretty ; F. 

 atro-virens, remarkable for its dark foliage ; F. bosci, with dark 

 glossy foliage, and woolly shoots ; F. juglandifolia (Walnut- 

 leaved) ; F. monophylla, single, instead of pinnate leaves ; F. 



