HORSE CHESTNUT (JEsculus Hippocastanum, Linn.). A 

 favorite avenue and park tree in Europe, that grows even 

 more vigorously in our Eastern States than abroad. It is 

 planted in all temperate countries, for its showy, creamy 

 flowers, that form large, terminal spikes, not unlike those of 

 potted hyacinths, at the ends of twigs. These come out with 

 the opening leaves, from large, pointed buds, formed the pre- 

 vious summer. The shining, brown nuts, one or two in each 

 3-valved capsule, or husk, spiny outside, have white spots, the 

 surface where they were attached. Inedible, because of their 

 bitter principle, they are dearly loved by children who hoard 

 them as they fall, in the late summer. 



