Ash samaras.
The wood of the ash is so very tough and elastic that from all time it has been used to make bows and spear shafts. Of course it is also valuable for less warlike uses.
When you read the “One Hoss Shay,” you will find one use to which ash wood is sometimes put.
The ash tree used to be held sacred by the ancient Norsemen, and some day you will read beautiful stories about the wonderful ash Ygdrasil.
The small tree we call “mountain ash” is not an ash at all, and it has, as you know, red berries instead of samaras.
PINES.
Pine trees bear cones, and cones do not fly. But if you examine the scales of the cones, you will find a winged seed under each. When the cones are ripe the scales open and the seeds drop out and are caught by the wind and floated away.