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AnsOUETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



I)artakes of that quality. The tree is of less vijjorous growth than M. 

 riibitiiiula; anil the shoots take a more upright direction. It appears to 

 lose its leaves sooner than most of the other sorts. There is a tree of 

 it in the London Horticultural Society's Garden. Plants, in the London 

 nurseries, cost 3*. 6(1. each. 



5; 5. .E. (H.) pa'llida Jl'i/id. The pa.lc-:^(> wired ^sculus, or HurscchcslmU. 



IiU-nlifiration. Willd. Enum., p. 406. ; Hayne Dend., p. 4* ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 597.; Don's Mill., 1. 



p. (>5'2. 

 Synonyme. 6elbliche Rosskastanie, Ger. 

 Engravings. Hayiic .\bbild., t. 25. ; and owrjig. 134. 



Distinct. Char., Sfc. Petals with the claws shorter than the calyx. Stamens 

 twice as long as the corolla. Flowers greenish yellow or whitish. A native 

 of North America, in the forests of Kentucky, introduced in 1812. Tliis 

 sort so closely resembles uE. glabra as to leave no iloubt in our mind of its 

 being essentially the same. It is of somewhat more robust growth, ami the 

 leaves are, perhaps, not cpiite so smooth. The tree in the Horticultural 

 Society's tiarden, in 18.S4, measureil I -J ft. in height, after having been 8 

 years planted ; the diameter of the trunk was 3i in., and of the head 7 ft. 



¥ G. JE. (H.) Lvo'n// Hort. Lyon's iEsculus. 

 Plants of this species, or variety, are in the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society; but they are so small, that it is difficult to say what they will 

 idtimateiy prove to be. 



App. i. Other Sorts or Varieties of H^' senilis. 



In conflci|uoncc of this genus ripening its seeds freely, and .idmittingof cro.^s.fecundation with the 

 genus I'ftvM, several varieties have, within these few years, been raiseil by British cultivators ; and, 

 indeed, there seems no limit to the number which may be raisc<l by these means. In the Fulham 

 Nursery arc, W'li it ley's fine scnrlft, which seems little, if at all, dillerent from ^K. rubieunda; JE. 

 amiriciitut, which also ditTers little from ,E. rubiciinda ; and several other varieties, which will be 

 noticed in our ap|K-ndix to the genus IViv/n. (Sec Gard. Mcf., vol. xi. p. i!kS.) In the garden of the 

 l.<indon Hortirultur.ll Society are the following names : — /K. //. tncisuiii, JE. H. pric'cox. /E. Jl. loi- 

 ludsH'H, and JE. II. n/'-rnw; but thcr plants to which they arc a|iplicd are .ill quite small and young. 

 It may be worth while to remark, that purchasers of the diflcrent varieties should always take care 



