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ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 



being found in great bunches and as long as six inches. 

 Its fruit is a long, thin, brownish pod, which is sweet and 

 contains little light brown beans. The wood is strong 

 and durable. , 



45. The Ash. Every boy who has owned a rowboat 

 knows that oars are made of wood from the ash. This 

 is because the oar must be elastic as well as strong, 

 and the timber of the ash tree sup- 

 plies these two qualities. The ash 

 is one of our tallest and noblest 

 forest trees. It is rather slim in 

 build, with beautiful clean shiny 

 green foliage. The members of 

 this group seem to be 

 fond of colors, and we 

 have the white ash, red 

 ash, green ash, blue ash, 

 and black ash. 



There are slight dif- 

 FIG. 102. Red Ash f erences in the leaves and 



seeds, but, as in other trees, when we have once seen an 

 ash seed we can always thereafter distinguish an ash tree. 

 Fig. 102 shows the seed of the red ash. It is a winged 

 seed, with the seed part inclosed by the wing. 



The compound leaf of the white ash has from five to 

 seven leaflets and the black ash has from seven to 



