has
| | |cut foliage.
| | |
AE. indica |Nepaul, and |White, |This distinct and beautiful
|other parts of |with |tree is perhaps the rarest
|Northern India. |yellow and|of the Horse Chestnuts in
|On the Himalaya |red |cultivation, and is not so
|the tree reaches|blotches |robust as the common
|a height of 70 |at the |species. It flowered in
|feet, with a |base of |England as long ago as 1858
|trunk 3 feet |the |at Mildenhall in Suffolk,
|through |petals; |but has been little heard
| |Summer |of. It is a tree doubtless
| | |for the Cornish and
| | |Devonshire and southern
| | |coast gardens where the
| | |Himalayan Rhododendrons
| | |thrive well. Sir Joseph
| | |Hooker, during his Himalaya
| | |travels fifty years ago,
| | |saw it loaded with its
| | |white racemes, and equal in
| | |beauty to the common Horse
| | |Chestnut of English parks.
| | |Its foliage is quite
| | |distinct from that of the
| | |other species, the leaflets
| | |numbering seven or nine,
| | |and being of a dark glossy
| | |green. In the other Horse
| | |Chestnuts the leaflets are
| | |usually only five to each
| | |leaf, and never more than
| | |seven. The racemes of this
| | |Indian species are abou