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except as to these details, all that I have said about the 

 black ash may be prediiiated. Engravings No. 14, p. 44, 

 and No. 15 represent the tree and leaf, and engraving 

 No. 16 the seed of the white-ash. 



Fraxinus Sambucifolia — Black-Ash. 



Low, damp, marshy places suit this tree. The seed 

 ripens in autumn, and, should be sown immediately, if 

 possible, but in this country, particularly in Quebec and 

 Manitoba, it had better be kept in moist sand, and the 

 sowing deferred to the spring, though, in this case, the 



19. — Populus canadensis — Cotton-wood —Leaves. 



seed sometimes takes a year to sprout. It vrould -be 

 better to sow where the trees are intended eventually to 

 stand, rather than in a nursery-bed ; four or five grains 

 should be deposited at intervals of four feet each way, 

 and it would be as well to sow Indian corn or some other 

 plant w^ith the ash-seed, to check the growth of weeds 

 and to afford shade to the young trees. A pound of ash- 

 seed contains about twenty thousand pickles, eighty per 



