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with moderately prominent, grayish buds. Burs in long 

 racemes (Pig. 24), very large for this species; spines 

 long, strong, branching and sharp. Nuts only one in 

 each bur, rather short, broad, top-shaped, with blunt 

 point; shell rery smooth, glossy, almost black; kernel 

 fine-grained and sweet. Ripens early, or with the earli- 

 est of the native sweet chestnuts. The original tree is 





FIG. 25. rtriLEK'S OHINQUAFIN. FIVE TEAKS OLD FKOM NUT. 



only six years old, twice transplanted, and is now ten 

 feet high, with a head fully as broad, and as shown in 

 Fig. 25. Although growing in a rather exposed posi- 

 tion, it has never been injured by low temperature in 

 winter or a high one in summer. It has thus far been 

 the most rapid-growing chestnut tree in my grounds, 

 although given no special care. "Whether it will eventu- 

 ally become a large tree, or soon cease to extend, is, of 



