In the yard behind the outbuildings, the fodder stack was a smoking pile, flakes of black ash blowing off in the breeze.

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Waterstone's poses a particular threat to traditional, pokey bookshops cutting a dash with its fashionable black-ash shelving and bright red carpets.

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It's most common in hard maple, but also occurs in birch, ash and, in rare cases, black walnut.

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In younger ash there is a distinctive smooth silver grey bark and sooty black buds.

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