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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photo by Romeyn B. Hough, Lowville, N. Y. Author of "Trees of America" 



The Black Ash 



the snowshoe and hoop ash of the redmen. the wood is exceedingly flexible and strong, its 

 sap rings are so formed that soaking and pounding separates them into flat strips 



made from it by sawing off a section of 

 green branch, free from knots, beating 

 it soundly to separate out the annual 

 rings and then splitting the stick as 

 wide as the hoops are wanted, say two 

 inches. The annual rings then sepa- 

 rate by hand and give as many strips 

 as there are annual rings in the billet. 



Of the other two ashes, the red (or 

 green), both varieties of the same spe- 

 cies, is a small and infrequent tree, 

 hard to tell from the white ash, pre- 

 ferring stream sides and low locations 

 in company with red maples and gums. 

 Its samaras, grown on a little fishpole 

 of a stem, distinguish it from the white 



