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growth of the young shoots, leaves, flowers and all, is com- 
pleted in about three or four weeks. When the leaves 
first unfold, they are clothed with a copious cotton-like 
down, which falls otf when they have attained their full 
size and development. 
The growth of the Horse-chestnut is slow, for a soft- wooded 
tree, when the trees are young : after five or six years, how- 
ever, it advances with more rapidity, and in twenty years 
forms a beautiful and massy tree. It prefers a strong, rich, 
loamy soil, and is easily raised from the large nuts, which 
are produced in great abundance. 
There are several species of Horse-chestnut, but the com- 
mon one, ( JEsculus Hippocastanum,) is incomparably the 
finest. The American sorts are the following : (y Esculus 
Ohioensis ,) or Ohio Buckeye, as it is called in the western 
states ; a small sized tree, with palmated leaves consisting 
of of Jive leaflets, and pretty bright yellow flowers, with red 
stamens. The fruit is about half the size of the exotic species. 
The Bed-flowered Horse-chestnut, ( JEsculus rubicunda,) 
is a small tree with scarlet flowers ; and the Smooth-leaved 
(JE. glabra,) has pale yellow flowers. All the foregoing 
have prickly fruit. Besides these are two small Horse-chest- 
nuts with smooth fruit, which thence properly belong to the 
genus Pavia , viz : the Yellow-flowered Pavia, ( P . lutea,) 
of Virginia and the southern states ; and the Red-flowered, 
(P. rubra,) with pretty clusters of reddish flowers ; both 
these have leaves resembling those of the Horse-chestnut, 
except in being divided into five leaflets, instead of seven. 
There are some other species, which are, however, rather 
shrubs than trees. 
