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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS xanthocebas 



JE. glabra(y®. ohioenais; M.palUda). 

 A North American species, 20 ft. high, 

 with very smooth leaves cut into 5 leaf- 

 lets. Flowers in June, greenish-yellow ; 

 corolla with 4 spreading, clawed petals, 

 shorter than the stamens. 



Culture dc. as above. 



JE. Hippocastanum {Common Horse 

 Chestnut). — This huge, well-known tree 

 from the mountainous regions of S. Eastern 

 Europe is probably the noblest looking 

 flowering tree in the British Islands. Its 

 leaves are divided into 7-8 obovate- wedge- 

 shaped, acute, coarsely toothed leaflets 

 6-9 in. long. According to locality the 

 beautiful white flowers tinged and 

 speckled with red are produced in more 

 or less erect pyramidal racemes, about 1 

 ft. long, from Easter to Whitsuntide, 

 from the end of almost every branch. 

 There are a few varieties known. One 

 flare plena has double or semi-double 

 flowers ; foliis aureis variegatis has the 

 leaves blotched with yellow; a.nilaciniata 

 has the leaves more or less finely cut and 

 lobed. 



On the Continent the seeds of the 

 Horse Chestnut are us?d as food for cattle, 

 sheep, pigs and poultry, and are said to 

 improve the quantity and flavour of milk 

 in cows. 



Culture do. as above. Easily raised 

 from seeds sown in autumn. Owing to 

 the shade of this tree, and the horizontal 

 spreading of its branches, little else wiU 

 grow beneath it except Ivy. 



JE. indica. — A handsome tree native 

 of N. India, with very large smooth leaves, 

 having 7-9 lance-shaped, serrate, stalked 

 leaflets. Flowers in May in terminal 

 clusters ; lower petals white tinged with 

 red, upper ones yeUow and edged with 

 white. 



Culture dc. as above. 



JE. parviflora (M. macrastachya ; 

 Pavia macrastachya). — A dwarf North 

 American tree 3-9 ft. high, with leaves 

 composed of 5-7 oval-obovate leaflets, 

 wooUy beneath. Flowers from April to 

 July, white, in long racemes. Stamens 

 6-7, three times longer than the corolla. 



Culture dc. as above. 



JE. Pavia (Pavia rubra). — BedBucTc- 

 eye. — A N. American tree 10-15 ft. high, 

 with leaves composed of 5 elliptic oblong 

 acute leaflets, slightly bearded in the 

 axils of the nerves beneath. Flowers in 



May, bright red, in large loose clusters. 

 The variety hwmilia grows only about 6 

 ft. high ; lacimiata has deeply cut leaflets ; 

 pendula has drooping branches; atro- 

 aangnAnea and Whdtleyana have more 

 brilliant flowers than the type. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



UNGNADIA. — A genus represented 

 only by the following species : — 



U. speciosa. — An ornamental shrub 

 or small tree, native of Texas, having 

 alternate oddly pinnate leaves composed 

 of 3-7 pairs of serrate ovate lance-shaped 

 leaflets. The frregular polygamous flowers 

 appear in summer in lateral clusters and 

 are of a pleasing pinky shade. The bell- 

 shaped calyx is 4-5-parted, and the 4-5 

 nearly equal petals have the claws 

 united and crested at the apex. Stamens 

 7-10. Capsule 3-lobed, leathery. 



Culture and Propagation. — This tree, 

 although fairly hardy in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, is more suitable for the 

 milder and warmer parts of the south and 

 west. It will thrive in ordinary good 

 garden soil like the Horse Chestnuts, and 

 may be increased by layering the branches, 

 or by sowing imported seeds in cold frames 

 or greenhouses immediately upon arrival. 

 It would also probably graft on stocks of 

 the Common Horse Chestnut. 



XANTHOCERAS.— Agenus contain- 

 ing only one species described herewith 

 and including the characters of the genus. 



X. sorbifolia. — ^A beautiful Chinese 

 tree 5-15 ft. high, with somewhat downy 

 branches, and alternate, exstipulate, oddly 

 pinnate leaves, having serrated leaflets, 

 resembling the ' Mountain Ash ' or 

 ' Eowan tree ' (Pyrus Aucuparia, p. 405). 

 Flowers in June, white, over 1 in. across, 

 with blood-red streaks at the base, regu- 

 lar, polygamous, produced in erect racemes 

 6-8 in. long. Sepals 5, equal, boat-shaped, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, elongated, clawed, 

 without scales. Disc cup-like, slender, 

 with 5 horns alternate with the petals. 

 Stamens 8. Fruit a 3-ceUed, oblong obtuse 

 capsule, as large as a hen's egg. 



Culture and Propagation. — This tree 

 thrives in good light garden soil. It is 

 hardy in the neighbourhood of London, 

 but attains a greater size when grown on 

 a south wall than if grown as a bush in 

 the open. In the south of England and 

 Ireland it flourishes and makes a charming 

 flowering tree. In hot favourable seasons 

 it ripens seeds freely, the large leatliery 



