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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
some erect variety of ash, from seven to ten feet above the ground, 
and becomes a tree of considerable size, and usually of more 
breadth than height. It is inferior in beauty to the following weep¬ 
ing variety of the ash. 
The Golden Ash, F aurea, and the Weeping Golden 
Ash, F. aurea pendula, are warmly commended by Sargent, the 
latter as “quite as hardy, and a great improvement on the old 
weeping ash.” 
The Aucuba-leaved Ash, F aucubafolia , is a variegated-leaved 
variety that is quite striking in the spring and early summer, when 
the yellow spots on its leaves give it the appearance of a tree in 
flower. It is apt to lose its beauty in the heat of summer. 
The Gold-spotted-leaved Ash, F punctata , is another varie¬ 
gated-leaved variety, considered by some superior in the brightness 
of its colors to the foregoing. 
The Variegated Willow-leaved, F salicifolia variegata , has 
brightly-marked white and green leaves in the spring, which, how¬ 
ever, turn to a dirty brown in the summer. 
There are many new varieties in the great nurseries, that 
are not yet sufficiently grown to enable one to judge of their 
merits. 
The Ash-leaved Negundo, Ash-leaved Maple, and Box 
Elder. Negundo fraxinifolium. Acer negundo. —This pretty na¬ 
tive tree, found growing on the 
mountains of the middle States, 
is one of the small trees well 
adapted to small grounds, and still 
but little known. It is allied to 
both the maple and the ash fami¬ 
lies, having seeds like the former, 
and pinnate leaves, as shown by 
our Fig. xi2, like the latter; or 
more still like those of the elder 
family. The leaves are composed 
of five leaflets on a long petiole, 
and are of a bluish or pale-green 
Fig. i i2. 
