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ern streams, the ash assumes peculiar beauty in autumn, 
when it can often be distinguished from the surrounding 
trees for four or five miles, by the peculiar and beautiful 
deep brownish-purple of its fine mass of foliage. This 
colour, though not lively, is so full and rich as to produce 
the most pleasing harmony with the bright yellows and reds 
of the other deciduous trees, and the deep green of the 
pines and cedars. 
The ash, unlike the elm, starts into vegetation late in the 
spring, which is an objection to planting it in the immediate 
vicinity of the house. In winter, the long grayish- white, or 
ash-coloured branches, are pleasing in tint, compared with 
those of other deciduous trees. 
The White ash. ( Fraxinus Americana .) This species, 
according to Michaux, is common to the colder parts of the 
Union, and is most abundant north of the Hudson. It owes 
its name to the light colour of the bark, which on large stocks 
is deeply furrowed, and divided into squares of one to three 
inches in diameter. The trunk is perfectly straight, and in 
close woods is often undivided to the height of more than 40 
feet. The leaves are composed of three or four pairs of leaf- 
lets, terminated by an odd one ; the whole twelve or fourteen 
inches long. Early in spring they are covered with a light 
down, which dissappears as summer advances, when they 
become quite smooth, of a light green colour above, and 
whitish beneath. The foliage, as well as the timber of our 
White ash, is finer than that of the common European ash, 
and the tree is much prized in France and Germany. 
The Black ash, ( F l sambucifolia ,) sometimes called the 
Water ash, requires a moist soil to thrive well, and is seen in 
the greatest perfection on the borders of swamps. Its buds 
