Bui. 299, U. S. Dept of Agriculture. 



Plate XIV. 



Fig. 1. — Dense natural reproduction of white ash in a 60-year-old white pine stand heavily 

 thinned 3 years ago, in which there was a slight admixture of white ash seed trees. There 

 was also abundant white pine reproduction, but this has been outgrown by the ash. In 

 removal of the mature stand the ash reproduction should be preserved and the pines, 

 which survive the suppression, allowed to continue as an understory till the ash becomes 

 merchantable and is removed, when the pine will form a second crop. 



Fig. 2.— Black ash sprouts, northern Michigan, 16 feet tall, 8 years 

 old, from stump 230 years old. Some sprouts from above and 

 below the root-collar; the former should be cut. 



REPRODUCTION OF ASH. 



