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Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Tree du jour: White Ash

We posted on the sad story of the Ash Tree diseases recently, but I didn't have a good photo of a White Ash, the fine northern hardwood and pleasant shade tree from which the Louisville Slugger happens to be made.


I took a photo of one - a young one - on the Kenyon campus in its orange and yellow autumn splendor.


 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 14:31 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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most lkely a cultivar of white ash - Autumn purple ash - a seedless variety bred for the fall foliage
#1 Kevin on 2009-10-21 17:12 (Reply)
yeah, could be. Ash is usually mostly yellow in the fall.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-10-22 07:48 (Reply)
I'm losing the clumping ash in my yard. I'm not certain but I believe it is a white ash. sad to see it go. If you've got any ash trees, water them. When I bought my house the previous owner had let the lawn around the tree go fallow. It took me 3 years to get a new one in. I should have put in a soaker hose as the ash could not stand the drought.
#2 smurfy on 2009-10-21 18:08 (Reply)
Old Timers wisdoms # 33 & 34 Desperate Winters

never kill a porcupine: they are the only animal in North America that is active in winter and an un-armed man can run to ground.

Ash is the only tree in the New England forest that will burn green.
#3 NorthCountry on 2009-10-21 19:40 (Reply)
White ash. A truly lovely wood. I have kitchen cabinets made of it that I, and The Better Two-Thirds, went to EXTREME efforts to recover and keep.

And then there is baseball bats. Not the maple (and I love maple) things that splinter everywhere, but the real ones that hit baseballs as they have always been hit.

Gotta love White Ash. Pretty as Aspens in fall. Far more useful the rest of the time.
#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2009-10-21 21:18 (Reply)
i have a white ash on the ground - fierce winds put it down more than a year ago. it is 24" at the butt and almost 16" straight up to the fork at 21 beautiful feet.

i have debarked it and it sits above the ground covered. someday it will be a staircase in the saltbox i will build.

well... that's the plan. it's a gift because there is not a snowball's chance in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that i would have ever cut it down.
#5 johnnyonline on 2009-10-22 02:20 (Reply)

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