FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 343 



Name. 



'M. (Pavia), 

 flora 



parvi- 



JE.. californica 



'jE. Pavia (P. rubra) 



M. turbinata 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



North America 



California. 40 feet 

 in its native 

 country, but not 

 much more than 

 a shrub here 



North America 



(introduced by 



Messrs. Veitch 



& Sons) 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



and in long 

 upright 



Erect spikes 

 of white or 



delicate 

 rose ; sweet- 

 smelling 

 flowers ; 

 May 

 Red; 

 early 

 summer 



Yellowish 



white, not 

 so large as 

 those of the 



common 

 Horse 



Chestnut 



General Remarks. 



ago, this August flowering 

 shrub is not common ; it is 

 a good shrub for a small 

 garden, and is not fastidious 

 about soil or even situation if 

 not too shady. It is increased 

 by suckers thrown up around 

 the plant. These, when de- 

 tached with a portion of root, 

 soon form good plants. 

 This is not much known, but 

 is a handsome shrub or tree. 



This is the Red Buckeye, and 

 will grow IS feet high, but 

 is more often simply a big 

 shrub. The flowers are very 

 bright red in colour, and in 

 loose clusters, unlike the 

 dense spikes of the common 

 Horse Chestnut. The varie- 

 ties are even dwarfer. Hum- 

 ilis, for instance, is only 4 feet. 

 Atrosanguinea has very dark 

 red flowers, and those of 

 whitleyana are brighter than 

 the type. 



As this has not yet flowered in 

 this country, as far as we 

 are aware, but, will probably 

 become popular here, the fol- 

 lowing account of it by Pro- 

 fessor Sargent in his " Forest 

 and Flora of Japan " will be 

 interesting : — 



' ' This, however, is a noble 

 tree — one of the largest and 

 stateliest of all the horse 

 chestnuts. In the forests of 

 the interior mountain regions 

 of Central Hondo, at eleva- 

 tions between 2000 and 3000 

 feet, horse chestnuts 80 to 

 100 feet tall, with trunks 

 3 or 4 feet in diameter, are 

 not uncommon. These were, 

 perhaps, the largest decidu- 

 ous trees on the main island 

 growing naturally in the 

 forest — that is, which had not 

 been planted by men — and 

 their escape from destruction 

 was probably due to their 

 inaccessible position, and to 

 the fact that the wood of the 

 horse chestnut is not particu- 

 larly valued by the Japanese. 



