. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tbees of the Noetheen States and Canada. 390 The Biltmore Ash is a tree of raediuin sizi, not often surpassing 40 ov 50 ft. in height or 12 or 15 in. in thickness of trunk, and when not crowded by other trees develops an opiii -sj-mmetrical ovoid or rounded top, of stout spreading brandies. Its bark is of a dark gray color, fissured in rather narrow somewhat reticulate ridges, very much resembling tliat of the White Ash, as it does also in the quality of its wood and ot
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tbees of the Noetheen States and Canada. 390 The Biltmore Ash is a tree of raediuin sizi, not often surpassing 40 ov 50 ft. in height or 12 or 15 in. in thickness of trunk, and when not crowded by other trees develops an opiii -sj-mmetrical ovoid or rounded top, of stout spreading brandies. Its bark is of a dark gray color, fissured in rather narrow somewhat reticulate ridges, very much resembling tliat of the White Ash, as it does also in the quality of its wood and other characters, excepting the amount of pubescence of its foliage and brancli- lets. It inhabits the rich well-drained soil of slopes and the banks of streams, or occasionally low-lands, of the foot-hill region of the Alle- ghany Mountains, from Pennsylvania to North- ern Georgia and Alabama. For its discovery we are indebted to Prof. C. D. Beadle, Botanist at the Biltmore forest estate of Mr. Geo. W. Vanderbilt, where it is a common tree, and he has appropriately given it the name of the estate. Its wood is heavy, hard, strong, tougli and of a pinkish brown color, with abundant lighter sap-wood, and is suitable for the uses to which the White Ash wood is Leaves 10-1.^ in. long, with 7-!) ovate or ovatf- oblon? to lanceolate somewhat falcate lonjr- petiolulate leaflets, 3-7 in. long, obtuse or rounded at base, acuminate, with entire or ob- scurely denticulate margins and at maturity firm dark green above, paler and pubescent especially on the veins beneath : branchlets velvety pubescent. Floirers early in May. in rather compact pubescent panicles. Fruit: samaras \y^-\% in. long, linear or linear-spatulate with wing 2 or .S times as long and very slightly decurrent upon the nearly terete narrowly elliptic seed-bearing portion. 1. A. W., xn, 1! Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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