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DESCRIPTIOXS OF THE SHRUBS 



blotches at the base. The green fruit is large, 1|-2| inches long, like 

 the Buckeye, but splitting into three parts having in each several globular 



dark brown seeds .] inch wide. It 

 is well adapted to solitary planting 

 rather than among other shrubs. 



[Seeds ; root cuttings. ] 



^sculus. The Horse-chest- 

 nuts and Buckeyes are niainJy 

 ornamental trees with clusters oi 

 large flowers and opposite decidu- 

 ous palmately compound leaves. 

 There are two or three species 

 shrubby in growth and so included 

 here. 



The one oftenest in cultivation 

 as a lawn plant is the Long-ua- 

 CEMED Horse-chestnut (100) — 

 jEsculus parvifl5ra; it grows as a 

 broadly spreading bush 3 to 10 feet 

 high and has in July and August erect narrow clusters of irregular 

 white flowers. The fruit is large, smooth, with several large chestnut- 

 like seeds. The blades of the leaves are 5 to 7, nearly sessile and finely 

 serrate. 



Fig. 106. — Siberian Maple. 



Fig. 107. — Field Maple. 



Fig. 108. — Montpelier Maple. 



Red or Smooth-fruited Buckeye (101) — ^Esculus P^via — is some- 

 times a tree 20 feet tall but usually a shrub 2 to 10 feet high with purple 

 to red flowers in large loose clusters in May or June and smooth fruit. 

 The 5 to 7 blades of the leaf are finely serrate, short-stalked, and purplish 

 below. i)l this species there are a number of named varieties : p^udula, 



