THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. J$ 



tafte would life for its introduction ; becaufe the 

 more dilfimilar the Afh is to its neighbouring trees, 

 the greater the contraft and variety, and, of courfe, 

 the power of pleafmg. 



Surely the (lately height and bulk of a full- 

 grown Afh, in its native foil, clothed with a live- 

 ly green foliage, elegantly pinnated, plead its 

 caufe in too eloquent a manner to be refitted . 

 The roots of the Afh, no doubt, impoverim the 

 foil they occupy ; but fo do the roots of all other 

 trees, in a greater or lefs degree. The quantity of 

 heavy leaves annually fhed by the Afh, and, con- 

 fequently, the return of vegetable matter to the 

 foil, may perhaps place it at leaft on a level with 

 its lefs exhaufling neighbours. 



We prefume, then, that the common Afh may 

 be admitted into the fociety of its brethren, the 

 gold-flriped, the filver-ftriped, the weeping, the 

 entire-leaved and the curled, or its congener the 

 Flowering-am, in the park and in the lawn, without 

 deviating from that propriety dictated by a just 



taste. * 



The 



* If, however, the park or lawn be intended for the pas~ 

 ture of milch cows, for the making of butter, ash trees 

 ought to be excluded. Cows eat the new-fallen leaves 

 greedily ; and these greatly affect the butter. Mr Miller 

 sa y s < Nor should any ash trees be permitted to grow near 

 * pasture grounds ; for if any of the cows eat of the leaves 

 6 or shoots of the ash, the butter which is made of their 



milk 



