ASH * FRAXINUS

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• Interesting trees grown chiefly for their handsome pinnate leaves and some species also for the conspicuous panicles of white flowers.
   
• Deciduous, about 50 species in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere south to Cuba; 16 of them occur in the U.S.
   
• The ashes are ornamental trees, most of them hardy, with rather large leaves. Valuable as street and park trees. They grow mostly into tall, pyramidal or broad-headed trees with rather light green foliage. The ash is seldom severely injured, though a number of insects and fungus prey on the leaves and wood. Many of the species are hardy. They grow in almost any moderately moist soil. They are readily transplanted and grow rapidly when young.
   
• The varieties grow from 40 to 120 ft.