OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 89 



brook, which at least will be preserved so 

 long as its present proprietor has control 

 over it. 



CASTANEA, Tournefort. Nat. Ord. Cory- 

 laceas. Monoecia, Poljandria, Linn. Male 

 flowers clustered in very long cylindrical 

 catkins. Female flowers generally in threes, 

 within a prickly covering. 



1. C. VESCA, Linnaeus. Leaves oblong lan 

 ceolate, acuminate, sinuate serrate, smooth 

 and green on both sides : nuts usually two 

 three in each covering. Chestnut-tree. Na 

 tive of Europe and America. Flowers in 

 June. 



Nothing can be a prettier object in the 

 landscape than this well-known tree. It fre 

 quently outgrows the oak, which it somewhat 

 resembles in appearance. The foreign varie 

 ties, Marroniers of the French, differ in little 

 from our native variety, except in the size 

 of their nuts. They are of distinct import 

 ance, however, in a landscape, on account of 

 their remaining green for weeks after our 

 kind has fallen into &quot;the sere and yellow leaf.&quot; 



