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LAWK AND SHADE TREES. 
& Barry, of Rochester, K Y. ; this, when grafted or budded on 
stocks of the excelsior or Americana, at a height of about six feet, 
forms a very pleasing ornamental dwarf tree. 
Of the other varieties, such as the crisp-leaved, gold blotched- 
leaved, etc., we have no occasion here to speak, because they are 
only desirable in very large collections, where variety rather 
than beauty or usefulness is the object sought. 
Fig. 1.— American Ash. 
The Flowering Ash — ornus Europeans — is a tree of an entire 
different habit. While an ash, and growing rapidly when 
young, it soon appears to have become mature, and seldom 
gets above twenty to thirty feet high, with a round ball-like 
head of about fifteen to twenty feet diameter. Its clean foliage 
and regular habit, together with the numerous white flowers 
which it bears in May or June, according to the climate in 
