ARBORETUM NOTES. 71 
SAPEN DACEA©. 
HIPPOCASTANE. 
Lindley.—Vegetable Kingdom. 
/Esculaceze.—Loudon. 
The genera A¢sculus and Pavia are re-united by Hippocast- 
anez 
Eudlicher, and are indeed very insufficiently 
distinguished. 
ZZSCULUS RUBICUNDA. 
Loudon, v. 1. 467. 
A fine tree in the arboretum, and another near #sculus 
the north west angle of the house. Both planted ee 
in the spring of 1826. Several younger ones in 
various parts of the grounds, especially on each 
side of the road to the east lodge. 
It appears to be as hardy as the common Horse- 
chesnut, and is exceedingly handsome in its 
general effect when in blossom, though the flowers 
looked at individually and closely, are scarcely as 
beautiful as those of the common kind. Is now 
much cultivated at Paris; when I was last there 
in 1857, I observed very fine and numerous trees 
of this kind at that time in profuse blossom in the 
Fardin des plantes. In the gardens of Herrenhausen 
near Hanover, also there are great numbers of 
the red Horse-chesnut, of very fine growth, and 
which, being covered with flowers at the season 
when I was there, had a beautiful appearance. 
The tree never, so far as I have seen, grows to 
nearly so great a height as the common Horse- 
