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2. Fraxinus alba, American White AJh . 
This tree grows fometimes to the height of forty 
or fifty feet, and to eighteen inches or more in di« 
ameter. It grows much after the manner of the 
former, only the leaves are broader, and the feeds 
narrower. The timber of this is uled much by 
Wheelwrights, Chaife-makers, &c. for making 
ihafts, rimming of wheels, &c. 
3. Fraxinus Nigra. Black AJh . 
This kind grows in moift places, rifing to the 
height of thirty feet or more, covered with a rough, 
lightifh coloured bark, and fending out but few 
branches. The leaves are chiefly produced at the 
ends of the branches, and are generally compofed 
of four pair of lobes, and an odd one, which are 
fliaped like thofe of the other kinds, but are fmall- 
er and finely fawed on their edges. The feeds or 
keys are broad and flat, and of equal width their 
whole length. 
4. Fraxinus pennfylvanica. P ennfylvanian 
Sharp- keyed AJh. 
This kind often grows to the height of thirty feet 
or more, and is generally thick fet with branches 
towards the top, having leaves much refembling the 
White Afh. The feeds grow in large panicles, thick 
fet upon the fides of the branches, near their extre- 
mities: they are longer, and narrower than any of 
the other kinds, almofl: terminating in a point at 
their bafe. This alfo affords a valuable wood, which 
is ufed for the fame purpofes as that of the White 
Afh. 
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