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occasionally found in this region, but I do not know of 

 one which fruits in Salem. There is a small tree, how- 

 ever, by the roadside on the Edmund Kimball place in 

 Wenham. 



Although the olive cannot be numbered among our 

 trees, still familiar representatives of the family are 

 numerous. The lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is often seen 

 growing from a single stem in old country gardens, 

 where both the purple and the white varieties are fre- 

 quently cultivated. There is a very tall and old white 

 lilac by the house of Mr. Henry Wardwell, No. 13 

 Summer street, and very large plants of the longer cul- 

 tivated purple lilac are especially noticeable in Danvers 

 and the Andovers. The privet, (Ligustrum vulgare) 

 generally used for a hedge plant, becomes a tree when 

 left to itself. There were a number of these in a yard 

 on Federal street, near Beckford, but they seem to 

 have disappeared before the hand of improvement. 

 The fringe tree (Chiouanthus virginica) is a small tree 

 but very beautiful when in flower with its delicate white 

 fringes hanging among the fresh green leaves. One in 

 Dr. Johnson's garden on Winter street was in full 

 flower about the middle of June. 



There are three native ashes besides the introduced 

 European tree, in Essex County, but the white ash 

 (Fraxinus americana) and the European ash (Fraxinus 

 excelsior) are the only ones which are frequently seen 

 in cultivation. The mountain ash, referred to in a 

 previous number of these sketches, it must be remem- 

 bered, is not an ash but a member of the rose family and 

 a relative of the apples, pears, etc. 



The black ash (Fraxinus sambucifolia) is found 

 growing naturally in wet places along North street. 



