If you or any of your readers have flowering plants of the genuine Fraxinus floribunda, will you kindly tell me something about it? We have several specimens 10 to 16 feet high of F. Ornus, the common flowering ash. They came into bloom about the middle of May, were in perfection about the 20th, and on some of the trees the flowers lasted in moderately good condition till the end of the month. Several of the trees have their trunks and branches a good deal injured by borers.

Mr. Barlow in his beautiful grounds near here has a large specimen of what he regards as F. floribunda. It blooms at the same time and in general appearance its flowers are like those of F. Ornus. But its leaves are less ample, and the leaflets narrower and more acuminate. Some two years ago Mr. B. gave us a young plant, a layer from his old one, and I have grown it in rich, moist land, in our nursery patch. It has made vigorous growth. The leaves and leaflets of this young plant are, except perhaps a little more acuminate, almost identical with those of our F. Ornus. Youth, vigor and good living have caused the change. Loudon says F. floribunda blooms in April and F. Ornus in May and June. [Fraxinus floribunda, of Wallick, is a Nepalese plant, and believed to be a distinct species from the Ornus of the south of Europe. - Ed. G. M].