On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and themountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson,Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page271:
Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort,mountain ash, roadside verbena.
1974, William M. Healy,Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers6-10,page99:
All threemountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.
2008, Elna Fone Nugent,Mountain Ash: A New England Memoir,page30:
To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was amountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted themountain ash tree there.
2011, Ruth Sims,The Legend of the Mountain Ash,unnumbered page:
In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is aMountain Ash unlike any other in the world.
2002, Brendan Mackey, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, Janette Lindesay, editors,Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis,page42:
McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1998) developed a model of the development of multi-agedMountain Ash forest in response to fire. The model predicted the prevalence of multi-agedMountain Ash forest as a function of the mean fire interval.
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