58 SYLVAN WINTER. 



foi-m is not less grand in its degree than its form 

 in the season of leafage will, we think, be ad- 

 mitted by the reader who glances at the faithful 

 figure given in the drawing, which our artist has 

 made, facing page 192. The rugged trunk clawing 

 the ground, the twisted, contorted, and stalwart 

 limbs, the rugged and drooping boughs and spray 

 — all twining, arching, twisting, and bending — are 

 happily shown in Mr. Short's sketch. Gilpin's 

 remark that it grows like the Oak is not inappro- 

 priate, though the Chestnut falls short of the Oak 

 in the immense proportions and in the strong 

 rectangular growth of the limbs. He says, ' Its 

 ramification is more straggling, but it is easy.' 

 This is very true, as our drawing will show, for 

 the form delineated has not the stern grandeur of 

 the Oak. 



Of the Horse Chestnut in its wintry form 

 (page 59) the author of ' Forest Scenery ' does 

 not speak, but under its rich garb of Summer 

 leaves he calls it ' a heavy, disagreeable tree,' an 

 opinion from which we have elsewhere dissented.* 

 Stripped of its leaves it presents one particular 



* ' Forest Scenery,' page 88, 



