uck-eye,
rubra) | |early |and will grow 15 feet high,
| |summer |but is more often simply a
| | |big shrub. The flowers are
| | |very bright red in colour,
| | |and in loose clusters,
| | |unlike the dense spikes of
| | |the common Horse Chestnut.
| | |The varieties are even
| | |dwarfer. Humilis, for
| | |instance, is only 4 feet.
| | |Atrosanguinea has very dark
| | |red flowers, and those of
| | |whitleyana are brighter
| | |than the type.
| | |
AE. turbinata |Japan |Yellowish |As this has not yet
|(introduced by |white, not|flowered in this country,
|Messrs. Veitch |so large |as far as we are aware, but
|& Sons) |as those |will probably become
| |of the |popular here, the following
| |common |account of it by Professor
| |Horse |Sargent in his "Forest
| |Chestnut |Flora of Japan" will be
| | |interesting:--
| | |
| | |"This, however, is a noble
| | |tree--one of the largest
| | |and stateliest of all the
| | |horse chestnuts. In the
| | |forests of the interior
| | |mountain regions of Central
| | |Hondo, at elevations
| | |between 2000 and 3000
| | |feet, horse chestnuts 80 to
|