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quite as hardy as and a great improvement upon the old Weep- 
ing ash. 
F. salici folia (Willow-leaved ash). — This is another of those 
remarkable thin cut-leaved trees, of which we have specimens in 
the beech, horse-chestnut and even the oak. This is a most 
rapid and robust grower, and would, undoubtedly, be taken foi 
a willow, by persons not very familiar with trees — and though 
not particularly handsome, still it is well deserving a place in 
all collections, where striking and curious plants are desired. 
F. globosa viridis or myrti folia (Myrtle-leaved ash). — A seed- 
ling, if we mistake not, of Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry, from 
whom we procured the plant some years ago ; is when grafted 
standard high, a very pretty effective little tree, with a globular 
head of small close, dark green foliage like the myrtle, and 
comes in very well, standing by itself in small pleasure grounds, 
or peeping out of low masses of shrubs. 
F. argentea alba. — A very singular variety, with leaves 
entirely white, and when planted with the aucubofolia, the 
leaves of which are quite golden, producing a remarkable effect, 
like gigantic flowering plants. We do not know the history of 
this singular tree, and have only seen it at Mr. Daniel Brincker. 
hoff ’s, in this neighborhood, who has the impression he procured 
it some years since, from Mr. Rivers of the Sawbridgeworth 
nurseries in England. It differs from the varieties known in 
the English nurseries as F. argentea , from the peculiar 
whiteness of its foliage ; the argentea being generally streaked 
with green, though it may be a sport of this tree. It is apt to 
suffer very much in June from the insects which, apparently 
attracted by the white foliage at night, greedily devour the 
leaves, though all the other ashes standing by escape un- 
touched. % 
F. lentiscifolia and F. lentiscifolia pendula , are both desira- 
ble trees, with neat, narrow foliage, and rapid growth. The 
Pendulous-branched we have found the most rapid of the ashes. 
The Weeping black and Gold-striped weeping, both pretty; F. 
atro-virens, remarkable for its dark foliage ; F. bosci , with dark 
glossy foliage, and woolly shoots ; F. juglandifolia (Walnut- 
leaved) ; F. monophylla, single, instead of pinnate leaves ; F. 
