The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Fraxinus (Supplement)

F. excelsior is the only British representative of this genus. To the species and varieties described on pp. 23-4, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

F. americana foliis argenteo-marginatis (silvery-margined leaved). An ornamental form, having the leaflets bordered with pale yellowish (or rosy in a young state). 1886.

F. turkestanica (Turkestan). l. pinnate; leaflets five, dark green, cuspidate, coarsely toothed. Buds reddish. Bark dark green, smooth. Turkestan, 1887.

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