Ash

Ash (Fraxinus) - The British Ash is a variable tree, and its varieties are more valuable than those of many other trees, the best of them not depending on mere variegation, but sometimes on habit, as in the pendulous variety, so well known, and used for bowers and on lawns. There is a form of this with yellow shoots, and certain kinds with singular leaves—mere monstrosities without value, for this fine tree has not escaped the variegation hunter. There is a variety of F. Lentiscifotia, a native of Asia Minor, which is pendulous in habit.

The Ash is never more beautiful than when fully exposed in the cool and northern parts of the country, and in Ireland and Scotland. America is rich in species, and in past times, before the conifers mania arose, they were planted, but of late very little attention has been given to them, and few of these reach the size and fine form of our native Ash.

Occasionally very picturesque effects arise from grafting the Weeping Ash on a very tall stem of the ordinary kind, of which there is a good example at Elvaston.

Ash Pictures

Astragalus accumbens Sheldon Zuni milkvetch

Astragalus aequalis Clokey Clokey's milkvetch

Astragalus aequalis Clokey Clokey's milkvetch

Astragalus aequalis Clokey Clokey's milkvetch

Astragalus agrestis Dougl. ex G. Don purple milkvetch

Astragalus andersonii Gray Anderson's milkvetch

Related Flowers

Fraxinus Ornus

Fraxinus Ornus - The celebrated Manna Ash, a native of the East and Mediterranean regions, which has several varieties. It is an effective and hardy tree in England, and even in London gardens is vigorous and handsome. It is grafted on the Common Ash, so what it would be if on its own roots we have no knowledge. Its place is generally among the larger flowering trees. Syn. Ornus.