The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE RED ASH (Fraxipus Pennsylvania)The slenderest key and the longest belong to this species. The wing is as long as the pencil-like body, and extends half-wayaround it. The winter buds are brown and set above prominent leaf scars THE GREEN ASH (Fraxinua lanceolata) The taper-pointed leafets are green on both sides. The slender keys are broader at the top an inch or more long, and borne in copious clusters; ripe in Autumr. THE FRINGE TREE (Chionanthus Virginica) The tree is transfor
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE RED ASH (Fraxipus Pennsylvania)The slenderest key and the longest belong to this species. The wing is as long as the pencil-like body, and extends half-wayaround it. The winter buds are brown and set above prominent leaf scars THE GREEN ASH (Fraxinua lanceolata) The taper-pointed leafets are green on both sides. The slender keys are broader at the top an inch or more long, and borne in copious clusters; ripe in Autumr. THE FRINGE TREE (Chionanthus Virginica) The tree is transformed by the shower of delicate white flowers that every twig supports in June. In September there are blueplums on the tree. They are striking in appearance among the large, yellow-green leaves The Ashes and the Fringe Tree me for quoting it. Three or four leaves of the ash taken inwine each morning doe make those lean that are fat. Parkinsonindorses this as a singular good medicine—with fasting a smallquantity—for those already fat or tending thereunto, to abatetheir greatnesse, and cause them to be lancke and gaunt. Whodisbelieves in this will do well to remember that Gerarde was nomean authority in his day, and Parkinson—was he not the Kingsown Apothecarye? I make no doubt, however, that the con-clusion will be drawn by many that the fasting a small quantitywas the effective part of the treatment prescribed. Bee-sucken ash, black at the heart, was counted tougherand harder than the wood of sound trees, and especially
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