"I am sure I told you that they would not live here in the open air, but they do in China; and the ailanthus is a Chinese tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

The ailanthus is quite common in this country as a wayside tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

Chinese literature refers to the ailanthus silkworm, poisonous moth, water green moth, and aphid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

A giant ailanthus tree, at least fifty feet tall, was growing up right between the derelict seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lampshade] Reference

This is the ailanthus, a large tree which you have often seen in the village, and which used to be popular as a shade-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

Edgar looked out a window and saw someone moving among the poplars and ailanthus trees in the most overgrown part of the rubbled lots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

It may also be necessary to use species that are not readily grazed by the animals (for example prosopsis, ailanthus and some eucalyptus).    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Maintaining plantations] Reference

These, however, he had cut away, as interfering with the symmetry of his grounds, and in place of them had ailanthus trees in parallel rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

She found him near Stuyvesant Square, in a shabby room overlooking a back yard in which an ailanthus tree spread its limbs above some clothes lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Even the ailanthus blossoms had ceased their snow-like dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

The ailanthus tree waved in the sunlight before the little house.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

She had noticed the day before that the ailanthus was growing dusty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference

It was a warm afternoon in May, and the crooked ailanthus-tree rooted in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunner Sisters] Reference

Once again the waving fronds of the ailanthus tree flung ghostly shadows on the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

The ailanthus tree waved in the moonlight and sent sprawling shadows over the wall of K.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

The June moon had risen, sending broken shafts of white light through the ailanthus to the house door.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

The yard was unkempt and ugly, run wild in straggling ailanthus shoots and littered with chips from the wood-pile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the People] Reference

They went on, first to the ailanthus bushes, then, leaving the road to the troops, they struck across a ruined cornfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

Square, with the new Corinthian doorway of the State House showing vaguely through the irregularly grouped ailanthus trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

A raw wind blew in gusts from the northeast, and the distorted ailanthus tree in the yard moaned and wrung its twisted limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the People] Reference

As he walked along he eyed with a professional glance the ailanthus and maple trees which, with an occasional poplar, lined the Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

Wet and radiant the blue reappeared through torn rags of cloud; the ailanthus sparkled; the earth in the flower-borders looked rich and warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference

These, however, he had cut away, as interfering with the symmetry of his grounds, and in place of them had planted ailanthus trees in parallel rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference

Kays has cut out invasive trees, especially ailanthus, or tree of heaven, an invasive tree that has taken root in many unkempt forests in this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frederick News-Post : Local News] Reference

At length I planted the varnish tree, or ailanthus, which succeeded completely in binding the sand. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

They occur mostly where the ailanthus grows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moths of the Limberlost] Reference

Agrostis nebulosa, ailanthus, shoots of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Non-fragrant flowers that yield honey are those of the raspberry, clematis, sumac, white oak, bugloss, ailanthus, goldenrod, aster, fleabane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference