. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Biltmore Ash 809 The wood is hard, strong and brown, with a specific gravity of , and is locally used in carpentry. The species is closely related to the White ash {Fraxinus americana Linnaeus). 18. WHITE ASH — Fraxinua americana Linnaeus The White ash, or Canadian ash as it is often called, ranges from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and southward to Florida, Kansas, and Texas. It prefers rich soil on hillsides, attaining
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Biltmore Ash 809 The wood is hard, strong and brown, with a specific gravity of , and is locally used in carpentry. The species is closely related to the White ash {Fraxinus americana Linnaeus). 18. WHITE ASH — Fraxinua americana Linnaeus The White ash, or Canadian ash as it is often called, ranges from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and southward to Florida, Kansas, and Texas. It prefers rich soil on hillsides, attaining a maximum height of about 40 meters, and a trunk diameter of 2 meters. Its bark is thick, gray-brown and fissured. Its young twigs and leaf-stalks are smooth or nearly so, but the imder sur- faces of the leaflets, which are much paler than the upper surfaces, vary from smooth to quite hairy. The leaves usually have 7 leaflets (5 to 9); these are sharp-pointed, lanceolate to obovate, finely toothed or en- tire-margined, and 7 to 15 cm. long. The staminate and pistillate flowers are usually borne on different trees (dioecious), but they are occasionally found in the same cluster (monoecious). The samaras are spatulate to nearly linear, 2 to 5 cm. long, the seed-bearing part plump, round in section (terete) and marginless, the wing arising near its top and twice to four times its length. The tree is of rapid growth, usually free from fungus diseases and from insect depredations; it is thus well adapted to street and park planting, the chief draw- back of the Ashes for these purposes being the lateness of the leaves to unfold in the spring and their early falling away in the autumn. Its wood is light brown, strong, tough, with a specific gravity of , and is largely utilized in building, for handles of tools, implements and Fig. 740. —; White Ash. 19. BILTMORE ASH —Fraxinus biltmoi«ana Beadle This relative of the White ash is known to grow from southern Pennsy
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