584 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE, 
[Novemsrr », 1874, 
inventing, ate t 1843, 
ag 
saat me use which he many 
te Nice, aoe 
Edinburgh in 
sit ON THE ASH. 
remarked in his Sy/va te oA 
d where 
. 116.—OLD ASH TREE NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE STOUR, 
BELOW STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 
S path to + wet wallet Ash oins the 
B él beaay wk k Dirik did ite ar is 
‘different ; for, shorn of its boug! i with a 
ga trunk, Ash becomes a dis-sightly object, 
ping ‘the 
and penetrated by the larva of the goat-moth, or bo 
red 
into by the i em ie often Losers as if it had been | 
expe 
e 
ing army. Too ohan: io, 
it is submitted to the pollarding 
: whic h at once 
ba IE RUINOUS ASH mia WITH A FOOTPATH 
MONMOUTHSHIRE, 
Fic, 117. -SUPERSTITIOUS OLD ASH, BIRTS MORTON, 
WORCESTERSHIRE 
(see fig 
This is a vegetable 3 min, sated an ingly cer 
torted, so nly be a matter 
jecture, ai indeed Lites souls to oy = ona as po y the 
age to which the A attain. only certain 
reference that Iċ is Strutt’s path of the 
Ash at E Camock, “Stirlingshire, which w ted 
“about the 1596,” which is now, ei ad 
278 y ome hw as when om cribed it, 
n full vi 
ramifications of its smaller branches, with solidity and 
stre its silvery stem and incipal arms.” Its 
gi ground was 31 feet, 19 feet 3 inches 
g by the 
igh, Worcestershire mae fi 
river Stour, r 19 Strat ee (fig. 116), 18 feet 
in girth, which, though holl enuded of its 
boughs, Es IGNA so stiff, and has such a i topt bark, 
| were a few 
| fresh and hag, akg 
| igou combining dm | 
pac in the lightness “ok ra folia oi and the playful 
that if unfelled, it 
ma 
Several very large and fine Ash trees 
described des writers on forests and forest 
R nha! FOR 
the 
ever to have 
E 
= | 
i 
FIG. 119. ae 
ere, ri 
Willow 
e Willow 
tions arai a 
cumst. 
| rather catiaondibary, 
THROUGH THEM, 
ined towers. 
ORCESTERSHIRE, (GIRTH, 
swollen a of decaying Willows, and 
th down roots along 
ties reach the ground. 
miinid, which at last breaks throug 
ind 
OO A 
may double its age, whatever tat 
have been 
** samara,” 
about to considerable distances, and vegetate on rocks 
and ru 
even get on the 
They 
ia 
227A 
OUS POLLARD ASH, TEME SIDE, LEIGH, — 
20 FT.) 
' 
make grow 
the trunk of 
» Case 
E Damaia 
