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- 

 laceae. Monoecia, Polyandria, Linn. Male 

 flowers clustered in very long cylindrical 

 catkins. Female flowers generally in threes, 

 within a prickly covering. . 



1. C. VESCA, Linnceus. 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 "the sere and yellow leaf." 

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