. Common trees of New York. Trees; Trees. 116 Common Trees. WHITE ASH Fraxinus americana, Linnaeus THE WHITE Ash is the most beautiful and useful of our native Ashes. The leaves are opposite, about 10 inches long, compound, with 5 to 9 leaflets. Leaflets are 3 to 5 inches long, evidently stalked, smooth or obscurely toothed on margin, smooth and dark - green above, silvery- white below. The flowers are of two kinds. The pollen - bearing occur in dense reddish-purple^ clusters, the seed - producing in rather open panicles. The fruit is a winged seed, 1 to 2 inches long. The wing is long, narrow
. Common trees of New York. Trees; Trees. 116 Common Trees. WHITE ASH Fraxinus americana, Linnaeus THE WHITE Ash is the most beautiful and useful of our native Ashes. The leaves are opposite, about 10 inches long, compound, with 5 to 9 leaflets. Leaflets are 3 to 5 inches long, evidently stalked, smooth or obscurely toothed on margin, smooth and dark - green above, silvery- white below. The flowers are of two kinds. The pollen - bearing occur in dense reddish-purple^ clusters, the seed - producing in rather open panicles. The fruit is a winged seed, 1 to 2 inches long. The wing is long, narrow, attached to the end of seed. The seeds are grouped in loose droop- ing clusters. The grayish-brown, and rather thick bark soon be- comes rough, dividing into diamond-shaped fissures. The twigs are smooth, grayish- brown, flattened at nodes, marked with scattered pale dots. The buds are opposite, egg-shaped, dark-brown, blunt- pointed. Terminal buds are larger than the laterals. The wood is very heavy, hard, tough, elastic, with light sapwood and brownish heartwood. It is used widely, par- ticularly for athletic equipment, agricultural implements, tools, furniture, interior finishings. The White Ash is found from Nova Scotia to Minnesota to Florida and Texas. It is common throughout New York, going up to about 2,000 feet in the Adirondacks. It is found on the north shore of Long Island and on Staten island. Fertile, moist soils, moist woods, meadow-lands, borders of lakes and streams are its favorite home. It often becomes 70 to 80 feet high and 3 feet in diameter, grows rapidly, is easily propagated. The Red Ash—Fraxinus pennsylvanica—is a medium- sized tree. It can be distinguished from the White Ash by its hairy twigs and leaf-stalks. Its leaflets are narrower. It is common throughout New York outside and chiefly south of the Adirondacks. WHITE ASH One-fourth natural Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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