Inventory 53, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE III. 



The Chinese Horse-Chestnut in Its Native Habitat. (Aesculus wilsonii 



Rehder, S. p. I. No. 45532). 



Although Frank N. Meyer, the agricultural explorer, did not find this tree so charming as the 

 European horse-chestnut, he predicted that it would prove better able to withstand hot summers 

 and long periods of drought. It has narrower leaves which do not appear to be whipped by the 

 wind so easily as do those of the European species. Specimens are growing near Seattle and 

 promise to be successful there, but it deserves a trial in the parks of the eastern United States. 

 (Tree 80 feet high, in flower, photographed (No. 96) by E. H. Wilson, Hsinwenping, Szechwan, 

 China, June 1, 1908.) 



