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neighbourhood. The ash is particularly abundant in this part of 

 Northumberland." Mr. Sydney having kindly sent us grafts of the 

 Cowpen ash, we have distributed them among the nurserymen, and 

 plants have been raised from them in the Fulhain Nursery. Mr. 

 (ieorge M' Leish, a correspondent of the Gardeners Magazine, informs 

 us that there are a number of ash trees growing out of the rocks 

 immediately below the Rumbling Bridge, on the Duke of Athol's 

 estate, a few miles from Dunkeld, which are probably not above 

 30 years of age, which have weeping branches, that droop almost to 

 the surface of the water. Whether these trees belong to the com- 

 mon weeping ash, to the Cowpen variety or variation, or to the 

 Kincairney ash, to be next described, remains to be ascertained. 



F. e. 3 Kincaimice, the Kincairney Ash, has the spray alternately 

 pendulous, and rigidly upright, and thus forms a tree of fantastic 

 shape. The original specimen grows on the estate of Mungo 

 Murray, Esq., in Kincairney, in the parish of Caputh, near Dun- 

 keld, Perthshire. It is 46ft. high ; the trunk, at 12ft. from the 

 ground, is 3 ft. in diameter ; and the diameter of the head, in 

 the widest part, is 74 ft. It appears to have been first brought into 

 notice by Mr. Gorrie, who sent us a drawing and description of it 

 in 1833 (see Gard. Mag., vol. x. p. 384.); and who, having at that 

 time directed the attention of Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull of 

 Perth to its propagation, they, we are informed, have now plants 

 of it for sale. 



F. e. 4 aurea Willd. Enum., p. 1059. ; F. aurea Pers. Ench.,\\. p. 604., 

 Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; the golden-barked Ash; has the bark of the 

 trunk and branches yellow and dotted; and the leaflets sessile, lance- 

 olate, unequally serrated, acuminated, cuneated at the base, and 

 glabrous. It is conspicuous, particularly in winter, not only from 

 the yellow colour of its bark, but from the curved, contorted cha- 

 racter of its branches, which somewhat resemble the horns of an 

 animal. 



*t F. e. 5 aurea pendula has the bark yellow, and the branches as pendu- 

 lous, and of as vigorous growth, as those of F. e. pendula. There 

 are fine specimen plants of this variety in the New Cross Nursery, 

 and in the Marylebone Nursery, New Road. 



1 F. e. 6 crispa ; F. crispa Bosc', F. atrovirens Desf. Arb.,\. p. 104. ; has 

 the leaves dark green, crumpled, and curled. The darkness of the 

 green of the leaves is remarkable ; and this and their crumpled ap- 

 pearance, combined with the rigid stunted character of the whole 

 plant, render it a striking object. The largest tree we know of, 

 of this variety, is at Farnham Castle, Surrey ; where, in 50 years, it 

 has attained the height of 15ft.; the diameter of the trunk 4 in.,, 

 and of the head 5 ft. In Jersey, in Saunders's Nursery, there is a 

 tree, which, in 12 years, has attained the height of 8 ft. ; the diameter 

 of the trunk 3 in., and of the head 3 ft. 



F. e. 7 jaspidca Willd., Lodd. Cat., ed.1836, the striped-barked Ash, has 

 the bark of the trunk and branches streaked with reddish-white. There 

 are specimens at West Dean, in Surrey, 9 years planted, and 21 ft. 

 high ; at Eaton Hall, in Cheshire, 14 years planted, and 16 ft. high ; 

 and at Ampton Hall, in Suffolk, 18 years planted, and 20 ft. high. 



3f F. e. 8 purpurascens Descemet, the purple-barked Ash, has the bark 

 purple. It was found in a bed of seedlings by M. Descemet; and 

 there are p]ants of it in the collection under his care at Odessa. 



F. e. 9 argentea Desf. Arb., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, the .Y/Vivr-striped- 

 leaved Ash. Leaves variegated with white. 



% F. e. 10 lutca, the ^iV/ow-edge-leafleted Ash, has the leaflets edged with 

 yellow. 



at F. e. 11 crosa Pers. Ench., i. p. 604., has the leaflets erosely toothed. 



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