The Ash. 



Black Ash at this time. The seeds lay in the ground two 

 years, and the plants are now about the height of those that 

 come from seeds of our Common English Ash. 



137. AMERICAN RED ASH. Fraxinus Tomeinosa.-^ 

 This is a tree w^hich rises to the height of sixty feet, and is 

 remarkable for growing very straight. Michaux tells us, 

 that the wood is used for the same purposes as those to 

 which the wood of the other Ashes is applied. It is called 

 Red Ash because the bark upon the trunk is of a reddish 

 or deep brown colour, and because the perfect wood is, in 

 the heart of it, of a bright red. Its seeds, being gatheretl 

 in the autumn, and sown in the spring, come up the first 

 year. 



138. AMERICAN BLUE ASH. Fraxinus Quadrangulata. 

 — ^This, as an ornamental tree, is very beautiful. The bark, 

 which is of a brickdust colour, or something approaching 

 it, forms itself in the smaller branches into five ribs or 

 angles ; and the seeds, at the butt end, where the kernels 

 lie, are of a bluish colour. According to MrcHAUX, the 

 Blue Ash frequently exceeds in height sixty or seventy feet, 

 but is seldom of great diameter. 



139. AMERICAN GREEN ASH. Fraxinus Viridis,— 

 This species of Ash differs from all the rest in the form of 

 its seeds, which have no wings, as those of all the rest have. 

 It is a small tree compared to any of the others, and is not 

 in general seen to be above twenty-five or thirty feet high, 

 with a diameter of from four to ten inches. Its name arises, 

 in all probability, from the circumstance of the bark being 

 of a greenish hue, while the bud is of a pale green ; and 

 while the seeds have a stripe of green down the middle of 

 each. This tree appears to be known little of in the colder 



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