CHESTNUT 



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tree with considerable resemblances to the Oak in habit, 

 but entirely different in leaves, inflorescence and fruit. 

 Shoots tawny and pubescent, passing to olive or slate- 



Fig. 105. Castanea vesca, Chestnut. Lark (Irv). 



coloured twigs with conspicuous lenticels. Bark dark 

 slate-brown, much fissured. Suckers abundant. 



The Chestnut has an ample crown, in the mass re- 

 sembling the Oak, but in the open very wide-spreading. 



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