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these growing upright, and the leaves on these are very 

 narrow, taper-pointed, and of a deeper and more glossy green. 

 If such freaks of nature occur in such large old trees, we may 



Fig. 37.— EEMILLT ASH. 



confidently expect equally as curious ones to occur among seed- 

 Uhgs raised under artificial conditions. 

 Several species and varieties of the Ash have recently been 



