Japanese Maple 
MAPLES, continued 
ACER Negundo, var. argenteo-variegatum. V.\KIEGATE,D- 
leaved box Elder. A small tree, with light-colored margin onoits 
leaves. The most effective of the hardy variegated trees. 
THE JAPANESE MAPLES 
The Japanese Maples embrace a large list of very beautiful shrubs, 
with a wide range of delicately cut and colored foliage. Most of them 
not sufficiently hardy for this region. The following are the hardiest of 
this class and succeed fairly well in Dayton, but should have winter pro- 
tection until well established. 
ACER polymorphum, var. dissectum. Cut-leaved Japanese 
Maple. Foliage light green and deeply cut. The hardiest of its class, 
var. dissectum atropurpureum. Cut-leaved Purple Japanese 
Maple. Very striking and beautiful form, with delicately cut, fern-lika 
leaves, which, with its drooping habit, gives it a graceful effect. 
AESCULUS Hippocastanum. Horse-chestnut. This well-known 
species forms a large-sized tree of handsome, regular outline ; is abso- 
lutely hardy, free from disease, and in May it is covered with magnifi- 
cent panicles of white flowers, lightly marked with red. The Horse- 
Chestnut is sometimes planted on the street. It is a slow grower, but 
richly rewards the patience of those who await its development, 
var. alba flore pleno. Double White-flowering Horse-chest- 
nut. Similar to the above, except that the (lowers are double and 
borne on larger panicles. 
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