. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 358 DECIDUOUS TREES. some erect variety of ash, from seven to ten feet above the ground, and becomes a tree of considerable size, and usually of more breadth than height. It is inferior in beauty to the following weep- ing variety of the ash. The Golden Ash, F. aurea, and the Weeping Golden Ash, F. aurea pmdiila, are warmly commended by Sargent, the latter as "quite as hardy, and a great improvement on the old weeping ; The Aucuba-leaved Ash, F. aucubqf
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 358 DECIDUOUS TREES. some erect variety of ash, from seven to ten feet above the ground, and becomes a tree of considerable size, and usually of more breadth than height. It is inferior in beauty to the following weep- ing variety of the ash. The Golden Ash, F. aurea, and the Weeping Golden Ash, F. aurea pmdiila, are warmly commended by Sargent, the latter as "quite as hardy, and a great improvement on the old weeping ; The Aucuba-leaved Ash, F. aucubqfolia, is a variegated-leaved variety that is quite striking in the spring and early summer, when the yellow spots on its leaves give it the appearance of a tree in flower. It is apt to lose its beauty in the heat of summer. The Gold-spotted-leaved Ash, F. punctata, is another varie- gated-leaved variety, considered by some superior in the brightness of its colors to the foregoing. The Variegated Willow-leaved, F. salicifolia variegata, has brightly-marked white and green leaves in the spring, which, how- ever, turn to a dirty brown in the summer. There are many new varieties in the great nurseries, that are not yet sufficiently grown to enable one to judge of their merits. Fig. 112. The Ash-leaved Negundo, Ash-leaved Maple, and Box Elder. Negundo fraxinifolium. Acer negundo.—This pretty na- tive tree, found growing on the mountains of the middle States, is one of the small trees well adapted to small grounds, and still but little known. It is allied to both the maple and the ash fami- lies, having seeds like the former, and pinnate leaves, as shown by our Fig. 112, like the latter; or more still like those of the elder family. The leaves are composed of five leaflets on a long petiole, and are of a bluish or pale-green. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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