4, 
THE ASH. 
Frazinus excelsior. 
Puate 1, Fia. 4. 
‘ Fraxinus in sylvis pulcherrima.’ 
has found ample endorsement in 
our own days; for this Tree has 
been called ‘The Venus of the 
woods:’ and it has undoubtedly as 
good a claim to this appellation as that 
claimed for the Oak, as being ‘the king 
of the forest.’ And by its fondness for the 
streamside, for the crests of inaccessible crags, for 
some jutting point of the steep upland, or for the 
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