ASH TREES. 
Ash trees are tall, straight, and handsome, with a 
very dark-colored bark, so regularly marked that one 
soon learns to know it at a glance. I once knew three 
of them that stood in an open pasture on the shore of 
Lake Ontario. 
It was worth going to the pasture in a high wind to 
see the tall, beautiful trunks sway as the wind struck 
them. I used to wish I could climb up into the tops of 
them, though it would have been a very unsafe perch 
indeed. 
You have guessed by now that ash trees have winged 
seed pods, and so they have. 
When the little clusters of ash flowers first show 
in the springtime they are black, and the tree seems 
to have black-tipped branches. Soon the black tips 
