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lowing account of them: — "No. 1. (JigA0i5.) grows upon a bank, or 

 high ground, in a hedgerow, about a quarter of a mile beyond Morpeth, 

 by the side of the Edinburgh turnpike-road. No. 2., an elegant tree, 

 between 55 ft. and 00 ft. high, stands close to the edge of the bank of 

 the river Wansbeck, a little beyond the new bridge which leads to the 

 Milton Road; and there is another ash tree, of the same description, 

 a short distance before reaching the bridge. These three trees are 

 the only ones that I know the localities of; and, though I have been 

 told at Morpeth, by several persons, that they thought there were 

 more of the same kind of trees growing in the neighbourhood, yet 

 no one knew where, or was even sure of the circumstance. These 

 tn < have long attracted my attention, from the gracefulness of their 

 appearance, and from their dissimilitude to the other ash trees in this 



