. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OLIVE FAMILY In general appearance the Red and the White Ash strongly resemble each other. But the Red Ash is downy on branch- let and leaf and petiole while the White Ash is in the main smooth. Its specific name pennsylvanica em- phasizes the fact that it is a tree of the North Atlantic states and grows best east of the Alleghany Moun- tains. It approaches the Black Ash in its preference for rich, low, moist soils, the banks of streams and the shores of lakes, but unlike it, will gro
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. OLIVE FAMILY In general appearance the Red and the White Ash strongly resemble each other. But the Red Ash is downy on branch- let and leaf and petiole while the White Ash is in the main smooth. Its specific name pennsylvanica em- phasizes the fact that it is a tree of the North Atlantic states and grows best east of the Alleghany Moun- tains. It approaches the Black Ash in its preference for rich, low, moist soils, the banks of streams and the shores of lakes, but unlike it, will grow in dry localities. The wood is not so valuable as that of the White Ash, being brittle instead of elastic. The Green Ash, F. lanceolata, which is now considered a variety of the Red Ash, may be distinguished from it by its dark and lustrous foliage, by the smoothness of its leaves and branchlets and the bright of the upper and lower surface of the leaves. In New England there are marked differences, but west of the Mississippi the two are connected by intermediate forms which blend them together. The Green Ash is recommended for parks, streets, and shelter belts in the western states, largely because of its abil- ity to flourish in regions of small and uncertain Samaras of Red Ash, fraxinus pennivivanica. BLUE ASH Frdxiniis quadrangiilhta. A tall slender tree, sometimes one hundred and twenty feet in height with a trunk two or three feet in diameter, usually much small- er. Native of the Mississippi valley, nowhere very abundant, prefers lime-stone soils. Barh.—Light gray tinged with red, irregularly fissured. Branch- lets, stout, four-angled, more or less four-winged, at first orange color with rusty pubescence, later they become light brown or ashy gray and gradually terete. 214. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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