134 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
To the painter, the magnificence of its stature and the 
richness of its drapery, especially when clothed in the 
beauty of its broad, palmated leaves and embroidered 
with its profusion of silvery flowers, more than atone 
for exceeding regularity of form, terminating, as it always 
does if left to nature, in an exact parabola; its massive 
and luxuriant beauty contrasts well with trees of a more 
airy character, and thus produces that breadth of light 
and shade so essential to landscape scenery. 
OHIO BUCKEYE.* 
This tree reaches the height of forty or fifty feet; it 
is one of the first trees to put forth leaves in the spring. 
It is only recommended for its beauty ; cattle sometimes 
kill themselves from gorging with the nuts. As a tim- 
ber tree it is a delusion and a snare, and not worth culti- 
vating. 
THE SWEET BUCKEYE. 
This tree reaches the height of from ninety to a hun- 
dred feet, and from two to three feet in diameter; it has 
not the disagreeable odor of the foregoing members of its 
species, hence the name of sweet buckeye. It loses its 
leaves early in September, and cannot be used for orna- 
mental purposes. Its wood is used for log-houses, 
wooden bowls, etc. It is propagated from slips, seeds, 
and by grafting. The husks that contain the nuts are 
not covered by thorny spines, but are quite smooth. 
THE RED BUCKEYE. 
This species is little more than a large shrub. It has 
large, bright spikes of red flowers that have a very pleas- 
ant odor. It is found widely scattered through all the 
rich bottom lands east of the Mississippi. The humming- 
* The introduction of this species of chestnut into, and its extensive 
growth and rapid thrift in, Ohio occasioned the peculiar appellation of 
‘Buckeye ” to that state; which name it still retains, and is familiarly 
applied to the state and its belongings. 
