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T HE ASH TREE. 



The Species are: 



1. The common Ash, 



2. The Manna Ash. 



3. The Vh'ginian flowering A s H . 



4. The New-England Ash, with fliarp-pointed leaves. 



5. The Carolina Ash. 



6. The white American As H» 



7. The black American As H. 



8. The red American A s H . 



9. The white-flowering A s H . 

 10. The Ash with fl:rip'd leaves. 



HAVING gathered the keys of the common Afli, in fair 

 weather, about the beginning of November, from hand- 

 fome vigorous trees, fpread them in an airy loft or covered place, 

 turning them frequently till quite dry, which, in a proper fitua- 

 tion, they will be in three or four weeks time ; then mix them 

 with loofe fandy earth, and let them be prote(5led from wet till 

 the following fpring, when they ought to be fown about the be- 

 ginning of April, on well-prepared frefla mellow foil, on beds 

 three and a half feet broad, with alleys eighteen inches between 

 the beds, and covered three quarters of an inch deep. Thefe 

 feeds will not appear above ground till the fucceeding fpring, 



