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	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)

	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)

	Ash Alert
		Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, is an exotic, invasive beetle that belongs to the metallic wood-borer family (Buprestidae).
		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.
		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)

	Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Sorbus – Mountain-Ash
		European mountain-ash has escaped cultivation in northern Ohio but does not threaten native plant populations.
		White flowers are smaller than the European mountain-ash and borne in May. Cymes are 21/2—5 inches (6—13 cm) across.
		The European mountain-ash is an attractive tree planted for ornamental purposes and grown for the showy, orange-red fruit.
	ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_41.html (449 words)

	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 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.
		The resilience and rapid growth of the European Ash made it an important resource for small holders and farmers, it was probably the most versatile wood in the countryside with wide ranging uses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Ash (486 words)

	Tree Lore
		Ash is also often see as masculine, and is attributed to the sun, the element fire, and the Gods Uranus, Poseidon, Thor, Woden, Neptune, Mars, and Gwydion.
		Ash leaves were placed in pillows for prophetic dreams and hung over door posts to keep away evil influences/sorcery.
		A circle of ash twigs tied around a snake bitten victim will cure the bite by belief that snakes have an innate fear of the Ash tree and even their venom will withdraw when Ash is brought near.
	www.angelfire.com /crazy/druid/lore.html (5417 words)

	Ash Tree Notes
		The Green Ash is a member of the Olive Family (Oleaceae), and the Green Ash is widely spread across the eastern half of the country, and into southern Canada, from Zones 2 to 9.
		Found typically in the moist bottomlands, the Green Ash has the widest distribution of the Olives, but is not the most common.
		Ash transplants well, so within a couple months, the seedlings would ready to plant in container or beds for further growth.
	www.cdr3.com /ash/as00002.htm (657 words)

	The Ash Tree In Indo-European Culture
		But ash trees have a property apparently not so well known to philologists which may explain their prominence: They secrete a sugary substance from their bark and leaves, which until the early part of this century was harvested and sold under the name "manna".
		Ash tree manna, as the Dispensatory of the United States of America noted, is fermentable, and ash trees do grow in India, including Fraxinus excelsior (the species familiar to the Germanic peoples), but only in the Himalayas above the elevation of 1300 m.
		The secretion of fermentable honey by the ash tree gave the Indo-Europeans good reason for their particular attention to that tree, and for their apparent belief that it was the nurse of gods and men.
	www.musaios.com /ash.htm (4647 words)

	Ash appointed Hoover fellow: 10/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timothy Garton Ash, internationally acclaimed for his prolific and insightful commentary on European political and economic affairs since the early 1980s, has been appointed a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
		Garton Ash will be in residence at Hoover on a part-year basis while continuing his appointment as a senior research fellow in contemporary European history at the European Studies Center of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.
		Garton Ash is a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2000/october11/gartonash-1011.html (215 words)

	Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - A LESS PERFECT UNION? The Constitution of the European Union
		Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow at Oxford University and at the Hoover Institution.
		And B, the first mention of Europeans is in a chronicle, an 8th century chronicle of the Battle of Tours, which was a battle against the Muslims.
		Timothy Garton Ash: For starters, if we had been sitting here in 1953 and I had told you that the whole continent of Europe is basically free, consists of democracies, which are more or less cooperating together and that there are no wars in Europe, you wouldn't have believed that possible.
	www.hoover.org /publications/uk/2940366.html (3639 words)

	Ash Trees and Fast Growing Nursery Plants for Home and Garden
		The Ash branches are strong, the wood is heavy and dense which makes for excellent firewood, and they make great shade trees.
		Green Ash is also found growing on upland and drier soil types, places where the soils are sandy or coarse, and also where soil alkalinity is high (like many places throughout the plains).
		Although not really a drought tolerant tree, the ecotypic variation has shown that Ash from the northwestern part of the natural range were more drought tolerant than the central or eastern populations.
	www.cdr3.com /ash (997 words)

	Ash - Herb Database + Images
		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.
		It appears commercially as quills which are gray or greenish-gray on the exterior with a number of small gray or brownish-white warts and having a smooth inner surface of yellowish to yellow-brown and is fibrous.
		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.
	earthnotes.tripod.com /ash.htm (1664 words)

	Exotic Wood ash
		Ash heartwood is small and the sapwood is large, so most ash is sapwood.
		Also, it's common for the curl in "curly" and "fiddleback" ash to NOT run the width of the sheet and, technically, this invalidates the "fiddleback" designation, which is used by many vendors simply to indicate a tight curl even if it doesn't run the full width.
		Ash veneer has the interesting attribute that the grain lines are translucent, which shows up very nicely in these ash ceiling light covers from a hotel in Jersey City, NJ.
	www.hobbithouseinc.com /personal/woodpics/ash.htm (1167 words)

	Ash Tree
		There are frequent allusions to the Ash throughout European literature, since its tough saplings were naturally chosen by both Greeks and Romans for their spears, whilst the agricultural writers of the latter nation recommend its wood for agricultural implements, a use to which it is still largely applied.
		The Ash attains a height of from thirty to fifty, or even from seventy to ninety feet, with a girth commonly of five or six, but in exceptional instances of as much as twenty feet.
		The name "Flowering Ash," applied to the manna-yielding species of Southern Europe, is, of course, a misnomer, since the species has true flowers, though they be not the conspicuous objects popularly dignified by that title.
	www.2020site.org /trees/ash.html (1913 words)

	mountain ash - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		mountain ash name for any species of the genus Sorbus of the family Rosaceae (rose family), hardy ornamental trees and shrubs native to the Northern Hemisphere, not related to the true ashes.
		They are deciduous and bear flat-topped clusters of white flowers followed by orange or brilliant red berrylike fruits, for which they are widely cultivated as ornamentals.
		Mountain ash is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mntnash.html (245 words)

	Ash
		The Ash is a common, impressive, deciduous tree reaching heights of 130 feet and found in most parts of Europe except the northern, southern, and eastern edges.
		The leaves of the ash are used for arthritis, gout, bladder complaints, a laxative, a diuretic and for worm infestations.
		Several ash species exude a nutritious sap called "manna," which is used as a laxative for children and pregnant women.
	www.innvista.com /HEALTH/herbs/ash.htm (332 words)

	Trees of Reed: Ashes
		This is the most abundantly planted ash, but it is not common in Portland.
		The Raywood Ash is a cultivar that originated in the Raywood Gardens near Adelaide, Australia.
		'Diversifolia' or 'One-Leaved Ash' - This deciduous tree is a cultivar of the European Ash.
	web.reed.edu /trees/TreePages/FRAX.html (233 words)

	The Ash Borer (Podosesia syringae Harris) Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Tri River Area
		The ash borer Podosesia syringae Harris (classified as Podosesia syringae fraxini Lugger by some authors) is a serious pest of the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) planted throughout Western Colorado.
		The adult ash borer emerges as early as April 22 in the Grand Junction, Colorado area and residents need to have sprays on their ash trees 10 to 14 days after emergence to control this pest.
		The adult Ash Borer is best known as a clearwing moth because the greater part of its wings are without scales and thus transparent.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/CoopExt/TRA/PLANTS/ashborer.html (792 words)

	EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN ASH - Sorbus aucuparia
		European Mountain Ash is frequently planted for its showy clusters of white flowers in spring followed by an excellent display of fruit that develop in tight clusters 4-5" wide.
		European Mountain Ash prefers a cool, rich loam soil, with good drainage.
		European Mountain Ash is susceptible to fire blight.
	www.mnpower.com /treebook/fact104.html (152 words)

	Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
		And you have this network of interlocking European institutions, of a legal kind of an economic kind, which mean that you don't really need to transfer that much more power from individual countries to the center.
		Timothy Garton Ash: That I do disagree with John because I think that something that might drive the Americans out is the sense that the Europeans aren't doing enough for their own defense.
		But what I fear is that there are substantial elements in European politics, I think that they're growing rather than shrinking as you do, which would like this power, which would not incidentally, be expanded to include, not only Russia, but it would not be expanded to include a lot of the East European countries.
	www.hoover.org /publications/uk/3003216.html (4191 words)

	Section 1: Large shade trees
		Ash borer is the most serious insect pest, which may cause branches to die, affecting the tree's ornamental value.
		White ash varieties are selected primarily for fall color and are among the first trees to turn, lasting two to three weeks.
		Among the most popular cultivars are `Autumn Purple' and `Rosehill.' White ash is susceptible to the same pests as green ash, but ash borer is sometimes more damaging, possibly because growth is slightly slower.
	mdc.mo.gov /forest/urban/urbantre/1lg.html (4063 words)

	European Ash
		Ash leaves are one of the latest to open and often drop while still green.
		Each seed is set in a long green wing or samara and drops from the tree during October.
		Ash likes alkaline soils and large ash woods will grow in limestone areas.
	www.offwell.free-online.co.uk /tree_gallery/european_ash/ash.html (86 words)

	Northern Mountain Ash, Sorbus decora
		Identifiable as a Mountain Ash by the toothed compound leaves.
		Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) and Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) have smooth leaf edges.
		The berries are said to have a superior flavor to those of the American Mountain Ash, with the best flavor obtained after frost.
	www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/trees/sorbusdec.html (466 words)

	Sorbus aucuparia: European Mountain-Ash
		European Mountain-Ash has a rapid growth rate at first but slows down with age, ultimately forming a 30-foot-tall, dense oval.
		The white flowers are somewhat showy, appearing in the spring after the leaves.
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	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /ST599 (676 words)

	European Ash - eMedicinal.com
		The ash was a sacred tree of Scandinavian and Germanic tribes of northern Europe.
		The first man, who was called Ask, sprang from an ash tree; and the woman, Embla, was thought to have come from the elm or alder tree.
		of the Ash tree taken in wine each morning from time to time makes those lean that are fat, snakebites, and keep them from eating too much.
	www.emedicinal.com /herbs/europeanash.php (390 words)

	Urban Forestry Services, Inc. - Wholesale Tree Nursery - Globehead European Ash Profile
		Globehead European Ash, Fraxinus excelsior ‘Globosa’, is one tree I suspect few of you have seen unless you have visited our nursery in Mount Vernon, WA.
		Globe Ash has a slow-to-moderate growth rate, forming a very round tight globe form.
		In this age of smaller spaces, the Globehead European Ash is ideal.
	www.urbanforestryservices.com /profglobeash.htm (385 words)

	Ash tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It threatens some 7 billion ash trees in North America.
		It is also used as material for the bodies of guitars, known for its bright, cutting tone and sustaining quality.
		Many echoes of archaic Hellene rites and myth involve ash trees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ash_tree (578 words)

	herb data, Bird's Tongue, Fraxinus excelsior, European ash, holisticonline.com
		The bark is primarily used to reduce fever, but it is also some- times used to expel intestinal worms.
		The leaf tea is popular in Europe as a mild purgative and is often used for rheumatism.
		Bird's tongue is a European tree, 100 to 130 feet high, commonly planted in parks and along streets and found wild in woods and along river- and stream-banks.
	www.holistic-online.com /herbal-med/_Herbs/h86.htm (174 words)

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