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	European Ash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is a tall tree, native to most of Europe, with the exception of northern Scandinavia (the northernmost location is in the Trondheimsfjord region of Norway) and southern Mediterranean Europe.
		Ash wood is a traditional material for tool handles, tennis rackets and snooker cues; it is also used as firewood because it burns well even when 'green' (freshly cut).
		Ash was coppiced, often in hedgerows, and evidence in the form of some huge boles with multiple trunks emerging at head height can still be see in parts of Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_ash (306 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Ash - Herb Profile and Information
		Ash is the second most important wood used in aeroplanes, and a study of the spacious afforestation scheme now in force over the Crown Lands of the New Forest reveals the fact that especial trouble has been taken to find suitable homes for the Ash.
		Ash bark occurs in commerce in quills which are grey or greenish-grey externally, with numerous small grey or brownishwhite warts, the inner surface yellowish or yellowish brown and nearly smooth; fracture smooth, fibrous in the inner layer, odourslight; taste bitter and astringent.
		Ash Keys were held in high reputation by the ancient physicians, being employed as a remedy for flatulence.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/a/ash--073.html (1218 words)

	ASELLI OR ASELLIO, GASPARO - LoveToKnow Article on ASELLI OR ASELLIO, GASPARO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unmixed ash plantations are seldom satisfacy, because the foliage does not sufficiently cover the ground; t when mixed with beech it grows well, and attains great ght and girth.
		Its common name is probably e to its resemblance to the true ash, in its smooth grey bark, iceful ascending branches, and especially the form of the leaf, ich is also pinnately compound but smaller than in the true 1.
		Its common name in Scotland is the rowan tree; it is II known by its clusters of white blossoms and succulent rlet fruit.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AS/ASELLI_OR_ASELLIO_GASPARO.htm (1462 words)

	Celtic Ogham: Cast Your Own Runes
		Ash was and still is an important timber tree, and is a traditional material for the handle of a besom; it is also a popular wood for wands.
		The common ash is occasionally cultivated in NorthAmerica, and similar native ash species are widely grown as street trees.
		Common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Beltane.
	glenavalon.com /ogham/celticogham.html (2056 words)

	Nion - Ash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ash - the common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) is a major tree of lowland forests in much of Europe, along with oaks and beeches.
		Ash was and still is an important timber tree, and is a traditional material for the handle of a besom.
		The common ash is occasionally cultivated in North America, and similar native ash species are widely grown as street trees.
	www.cyberwitch.com /wychwood/SacredWood/nion.htm (147 words)

	The Ash
		The Ash was a sacred chieftain tree, believed to "court the flash" since it was prone to be struck by lightning.
		The wood of the Ash was thought to be enchanted and was used by the Druids to fashion wands and spears.
		The Ash is a tenacious tree, such that it is not unusual for a singular branch to begin to sprout from one tiny point on the bark of an otherwise dead trunk.
	www.novareinna.com /constellation/ash.html (2749 words)

	Ash Alert
		Emerald ash borer is an insect native of Asia (eastern Russia, northeastern China, Mongolia, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea), where it can be found on several species of ash and is not considered a pest.
		Common signs of infestation include D-shaped exit holes through the bark about one-eighth of an inch wide, S-shaped larval galleries just beneath the bark, thinning canopy, vertical splits in the bark, and unusual shoots sprouting from the main trunk or base of the tree.
		Ash is one of the most common trees in Ohio, present in every forest type of the state.
	www.ashalert.osu.edu /faq.asp?pageview=faq (1838 words)

	Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Water Supply and Mitigation Strategies
		Newly fallen volcanic ash may result in short-term physical and chemical changes in water quality, increased wear on water-delivery and treatment systems (for example, pumping stations), and high demand for water during cleanup operations by residents of communities affected by ash fall.
		For example, an ash fall of 3-6 mm in Anchorage, Alaska, during the 1953 eruption of Mount Spurr caused the turbidity of the public water supply to rise from 5 ppm to 290 ppm; it took six days to return to normal (Blong, 1984).
		Samples of ash were found to contain 0.25% water soluble salts, mainly as sulphates and chlorides in the form of sodium salts (Moen and McLuca, 1980).
	volcanoes.usgs.gov /ash/water (3879 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Common Ash Tree
		The common ash is seriously confused in this respect: while some ash trees have flowers with both male and female parts, some have only male or only female flowers, and some produce separate male and female flowers on different branches.
		In sports, ash is commonly used for hockey sticks, oars, snooker cues and for the hurleys used in the Irish sport of hurling.
		In the Celtic Ogham Alphabet ash or 'Nion' represented our modern letter N. In English folk wisdom, it was thought that the opening of the buds could predict the weather: if oak buds were seen to open first, the summer would be dry, while if the ash buds opened first, the weather would be wet.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A616259 (981 words)

	Tree Totem-Trees-Ash
		Ashes are members of the olive family (oleaceae) of which there are 65 species,17 are native to north America.
		The common ash is a tree of the lowland forests and can be found with oaks and beech trees.
		Ash wood is one of the nine sacred woods and deemed suitable for burning in ritual fires especially for Yule.
	treetotem.com /teash.htm (1150 words)

	Ash tree
		An ash can be any of three different tree species from three very distinct families (see end of page for disambiguation), but originally and most commonly refers to trees of the genus Fraxinus in the olive family Oleaceae.
		The ashes are usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen.
		Elsewhere in Europe, snakes were said to be repelled by ash leaves or a circle drawn by an ash branch.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/as/ash_tree.html (388 words)

	Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales and Northern Ireland Home Page
		The common ash in Britain bears the Latin name Fraxinus excelsior It is a large familiar tree with a long silvery grey stem in lowland woods.
		Ash wood is light brown in colour with little difference between sapwood and heartwood.
		As a wood ash is renowned for its toughness and pliability which taken together make it the best wood in the world for tool handles, sports goods such as hockey sticks, oars and where wood framing may be required for large vehicles or caravans.
	www.rfs.org.uk /thirdlevel.asp?ThirdLevel=164&SecondLevel=33 (708 words)

	Ash - WikiWood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The most common Ash in the United States is White Ash (Fraxinus americana, Fraxinus latifolia, and Fraxinus pennsylvanica), with Black Ash (Fraxinus Nigra and also Fraxinus pennsylvanica).
		Ash is well known as being the traditional wood for baseball bats, given it's good strength-to-weight ratio.
		Ash generally grow to 120 feet in height, and 6 feet in diameter, and is found primarly in the Mid East, Atlantic, and Lake States, and Eurasia.
	www.wikiwood.com /index.php?title=Ash (198 words)

	Ash
		The pollen of the Ash is totally dependant on the wind for spreading it about, and so protective calyces would only get in the way, as would petals, which have the function of attracting insect-pollinators with their bright colours.
		The Ash is the last tree to dress itself with leaves in the summer and it is often the first to shed its greenery in the autumn.
		Ash is an axis around and through which the different energies and dimensions of life can connect and harmonise with each other, endlessly changing and flowing in the process.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /BritishTrees/ash.htm (7427 words)

	Harwood Lumber List
		We have found this Ash lumber to have a medium texture, not nearly as soft as the Ash from the deep South, nor nearly as hard as the Ash from the Northern Regions.
		Ash is available in lengths ranging from 4’ to 16’ in length.
		Ash is an open-grained hardwood, which works very well and is easily finished.
	www.schallerhardwood.com /harwood_lumber.htm (5278 words)

	Herb Database + Images - Ash
		Ash is valuable as a timber crop being heavy, strong, stiff, hard and takes a high polish as well as shrinking only moderately when seasoned.
		by internal and external use of the juice of the white ash that was procured by burning a branch in its center and collecting the escaping liquid from the branch ends.
		in horses and cattle; the bark is burnt to ashes and made into a strong lye...1/2 pint of this is mixed with 1 pint of warm water and administered 2 or 3 times daily (1846).
	earthnotes.tripod.com /ash.htm (1654 words)

	White Ash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		White Ash, one of the more common and rapidly growing trees of forests and fields in all of Ohio, is also a popular shade tree for urban areas.
		Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis), a destructive exotic pest from Asia, was positively identified in Lucas County, Ohio in February 2003.
		Leaves of White Ash are opposite, pinnately compound, and have 5 to 9 dark green leaflets (usually seven or nine, shown at left) with white-green undersides (shown as a detached leaflet at left, being the reason that White Ash is so-named).
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/Education/ohiotrees/ashwhite.htm (728 words)

	Floridata: Fraxinus americana
		Ashes have opposite branching and their pinnately compound leaves are arranged along the branchlets in opposing pairs, with an odd leaflet at the end.
		The leaves of white ash are 8-14 in (20.3-35.6 cm) long and have 5, 7 or 9 (usually 7) leaflets, each 3-5 in (7.6-12.7 cm) long and pointed at the tip.
		White ash is the most valuable of the ashes for timber; the wood is lightweight yet hard and strong, and used to make tool handles, furniture and baseball bats.
	www.floridata.com /ref/F/frax_ame.cfm (749 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rowan
		The fruit are soft and juicy, which makes them a very good food for birds, particularly waxwings and thrushes, which then distribute the rowan seeds in their droppings.
		The name arises from the superficial similarity in leaf shape of the two trees; in fact, the rowan does not belong to the ash family, but is closely related to the apples and hawthorns in the rose family.
		World map showing North America (geographically) A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rowan (2132 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ashes The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ashes, The, small funereal trophy that is at stake when England play Australia at Test match cricket, usually every other year.
		If combustion has been complete, the ash will be entirely inorganic.
		Ash (tree/shrub), common name for members of a genus of plants (Olive), comprising about 65 species of mostly northern temperate trees and shrubs,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ashes_The.html (88 words)

	Ash
		Ash is a slender tree that grows between 33 ft and 99 ft (10 and 30 meters) high.
		In the 19th century American physicians prescribed white ash preparations as a styptic, to stop minor bleeding; as an emetic, to promote vomiting; and for a variety of other purposes.
		Ash aids reproduction, but must be used in moderation, for its virilizing effect is very strong.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_ash.htm (592 words)

	Trees of the Irish Lunar Calendar; The Third Moon; Ash
		A descendant of the Sacred Tree of Creevna, also an Ash, was still standing at Killura in the nineteenth century; its wood was a charm aginast drowning and emigrants to America during the potato famine carried it away with them piecemeal.
		In England where the ash was believed to be especially beneficial, children were passed through a fork in an ash tree, this was supposed to protect them from rickets and hernias.
		Ash bark is collected from the trunk and the roots, the latter being preferred.
	www.danann.org /library/cycle/ash.html (947 words)

	Prickly Ash
		Prickly ash is also considered an alterative in traditional herbalism, meaning it enhances the body’s ability to fight against and recover from all manner of difficulties.
		Whether this explains the historical use of prickly ash for toothaches remains to be confirmed in clinical trials.
		Some herbal experts suggest that prickly ash be avoided by pregnant women because it may stimulate menstruation and increase risk of a miscarriage.
	www.truestarhealth.com /Notes/2149006.html (667 words)

	Green Ash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The old Red Ash was distinguished by the ruddy fuzziness on its leaflet undersides and stems, and for the tendency of its fall foliage to have traces of a burgandy or red color.
		Green Ash is so named because the color of its leaves is green on both the upper leaflet surfaces and the lower leaflet surfaces, and because its autumn coloration often has a lot of green in it.
		The young bark of Green Ash is usually flaky (lower left), and forms tall interlacing ridges and deep furrows with age (lower right), yielding a classic diamondback pattern on the mature bark.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/Education/ohiotrees/ashgreen.htm (789 words)

	Fraxinus excelsior: Common Ash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Common Ash is a broad, spreading, deciduous tree, capable of reaching 100 feet or more in height but most often seen growing at a moderate pace at 70 to 80 feet with a 60 to 90-foot spread.
		Common Ash should be grown in full sun or partial shade and prefers moist, rich soil, and grows well on calcareous soil.
		Ash borer bores into the trunk at or near the soil line causing tree dieback.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /BODY_ST264 (677 words)

	Ash trees
		Ash trees are often planted in the home landscape because they are in good supply in local nurseries and grow quickly compared with oaks.
		The varieties of ash available commercially are kinds of green or white ash.
		Ash borer is the most serious because it can kill the tree.
	www.ext.colostate.edu /ptlk/1735.html (252 words)

	Ash
		The Common Ash is a tall handsome tree readily distinguished by its light-grey bark, which is smooth in younger trees and rough and scaly in older ones.
		Ash wood is used for more practical purposes than that of any other tree, being so elastic that a joist of it will bear more pressure before it breaks, than one made of other wood.
		Of old, a staff of ash was hung over doorframes to ward off malign influences, or ash leaves were scattered in the four directions to protect a house or area, or a garter made from its green bark was worn as protection against sorcerers and physic attacks.
	www.controverscial.com /Ash.htm (2465 words)

	ash whitefly - Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday)
		Ash whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae, was described as Aleyrodes phillyreae by Haliday (1835), on Phillyrea latifolia collected in Dublin, Ireland.
		Most ash whiteflies in California were found on pomegranate, ash tree, pear, apple, loquat and citrus.
		Ash whitefly has the potential to become a serious pest in new environs.
	creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /orn/ash_whitefly.htm (790 words)

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