FRAXINUS. 
Worth America. It blofloms at the énd of April or’ bee 
inning of May, and is a middle-fized t tree, not remarkable 
Fe beauty. aves are large, refembling thofe of a 
The lea 
Walnut, and differ from the laft in bein ng toothed, and not fo 
much pointed. The buds, are. frnall, compreffed and reddifh, 
The flowers have acalyx;but we find no mention ofa eorela: 
Narrow merle Carolina A fh. 
. Willd. Baumnz, 
ue, nae pendulis ; Catef- 
—‘ Leaflets ftalked, lanceclate, 
toothed, ae fe h. Branches fmooth. Flowers 
wi yx.’’——-Native of North uae Differs fr 
the preceding in having na ae more pointed aves, not 
white beneath, toothed, of a bright ining green. Lia: 
marck ees a variety with. 7 narrower leaves, of a 
brighter green beneath, and of an_ agreeable afpet, which 
he conceives to be probably what Catiby has figured, 
«De tens. Downy-leaved Afh a bam: Did. v. 2. 
. Willd. Baumz. 119. Walt. Carol. 254, ?-—6 ere 
ftalked, elliptic-ovate, ferrated ; downy beneath, as well as 
the footitalks and branches. Flowers w 
vie oo ‘iiew ther American kind ufually feven or 
, finely ferrated, clothed underneath with foft a 
The footfialts and young branches ave likewife downy. 
eta with a calyx, but no corolla, Lamarck, Willd 
EL fombucifolia Elder leaved Ath.—Lam. Dic. v. 2 
Ho. Willd. Bau —* Leaves feffile, ovato-lanceo- 
ate, ferrated, ae ae branching of their‘ veins 
doway beneat art ss —. tive of North America. A tre 
vigorous grov nty or twenty-five feet high, known 
its feffile aes ad their dark-green colour. The 
= Se alked. The whole oe leafletsis Teven, 
They are naked, hea the ribs at the back. Of the flowers 
we ae ave no acco 
f this and ae three immediately preceding we hav 
t from the works of Lamarck and Willdenow. 
e 
5 
a ‘of Salix ei gialaes it isto be hoped t of Fraxi- 
mus and Guercus eciar ne day receive elucidation, from fome 
ieientifc and. ‘The plants mutt be obferved, and. -fpeci- 
mens collected, 
when in flower, in early and in “full-grown 
flags ue ‘is fally formed capfules. 
F. ne ommon Ath, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1509 
Lam. D Did. v. 2. 544. Engl. Bot. t. 1692. eae flight. 
ly flalked, elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, ferrated. Flowers 
without calyx or corolla.—Native of Europe and the north 
of Afia, in a light {pringy (but not marfhy) foil, efpecial- 
ly if marly or calcareous. - ie pe 
tributes much to drain them. row in almoft a 
frtuation, even in hard ae and e pees though pera 
jully obferves that poor dry ah ground is fa to this 
tree. . Its fincoth flately flem rifes = a great height, with 
fpreading, oan es branche 
black and dov . Leaves compo 
ead ce 
petals. 
point ted. 
Vv 
Coie Awithou y traces 
Capfules pendalous, compel, 
on. XV. 
of” calyx.or | 
often ined, 
—Lam 
F. carolinenfis, foi, 
olla. 
th- Native of the Levant. 
Man 
in bogs, it 
a. Weeping Ath. This is a variety, whofe face are 
quite pendulous, and {weep on the ground. Itis well adapted 
for bowers, and is now common in the gardens of this 
country. 
.6. Simplé-leaved Ath, Fraxinus fimplicifolia ; Willd. 
eal 121.t. 3. f. 2. We have heard of wild plants of © 
is kind in are dae and in Kent. - - large mala 
ate give itat erent alpect e Com 
Afh, ‘but have ode alae y “than ‘beauty. 19 to recom- 
trend them. Some of them however are occafionall 
Willdenow efteems this Afh a diftin@ {pecies, ane we have 
eae furmifes to the fame purpofe, which we have not yet. 
erials to orl or confirm. Prepagation ey feed fhould 
ian the que 
Fy excelfor is alvabls for its tough and hard wood, which 
ferves for many different pur pofes. The varieties are Te 
ae by grafting . 
y pinnate e 
. Fy parv. cpa, Small-leaved Afh. Lam. be et. 
re Wild. Baumz..124. t. 6. f§ 2. (F. wad 
Ebrh. Pl Of, Bot) Leaflets flightly ftatked, hi 
pointed, ferrated 5 aie e-fhaped at the bafe. Flow 
Captules cylindrical at the so 
is has been confounded with ba 
na Afh, from which i is pt bap » being much m 
like ale Cai mon Afhin pi agreein g with the ie 
in the colour’and fhrudrure ie ite wers, which have neither 
calyx nor corolla, . The capfules, according to Lamarck, are 
narrow, and nearly cylindrical, their wing dilated aaa 
and = — Thé Laflets are ae erand broader than in 
exce. Ehrhart appears to have confounded the {pecies 
peers us with Miller’s F. rotundifolia, ourn. 2, and feveral 
perfons miftake it for the tree which produces Manna, F. Or- 
nus. 
er cor 
Fraxinus, in Gar ae comprifes plants of the hardy 
deciduous aes = = which - {pecies cultivated for tim- 
the afh-tree (F. excelf 
eee (F. rotundifolia), ri flowering afh-tree (¥. or- 
1) and the American afh-tree (F. americana ); 
‘OF the firf- aed there are i capioaie with fragile leaves, 
lobe d, even ternate ; 1 pendulous branches; or 
n 
weeping afh, with vaiegated cae yellow and white ;_ 
gold-ftriped and filver-ftr 
And of the third one there isa var iety, the dwarf flower- 
ing a @ 
OF the fourth ee there are the wit e American afhy 
and the red Ameri 
there is a third variety - 
named Kn black’ oe in. a which the ftem. is ereét, branching, 
twenty or thirty feet in height, with large very dark pee 
ee pa . three or four pairs of lobes and an odd on 
{mall flowers of a a colour, and broad blackifh fr oe 
Saget ae may a. é found in the nurferies which 
t lefs. curious fig thofe that have been mentioned 
oe e. 
Method of Culture.—Thefe plints may all of them be in- 
creafed with facility. by feeds, which in the common fort 
aould be fown i in the autumn 3 the cthers, as foon 
h : 
tl . for iene iad, where they are to growi in the eet al 
und. 
"The three laft forts may arabe be raifed by. ae gor 
ingrafting upon common afh ftocks, when of the of a 
ood beap ftem. This bufinefs ran be pe ee han 
Li the 
