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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
The Scarlet-flowering Horse-chestnut, PE. h. coccinea, 
is a variety of the rubicunda, said to have more brilliantly colored 
flowers. Sargent mentions it as the most striking floral tree of the 
season. It blooms when quite young. 
The Variegated-leaved Horse-chestnut, PE. h. aurea , is a 
variety little commended; the variegation not remaining a bright 
and healthy color throughout the season, though it gives the tree a 
pleasing warm tone in the spring. 
The Cut-leaved Horse-chestnut, PE. h. lacianata, is remark¬ 
able solely for the very curious shred-like character of its leaves. 
The Dwarf Double-flowering Horse-chestnut, PE. h. 
nana flore plena, is a variety with large leaves and compact head, 
which is said to grow only eight to ten feet high, and promises to 
be an interesting shrub. 
The Big, or Ohio Buckeye, or Yellow Horse-chestnut. 
Pavia flava or PEscuius fiava. —This fine 
native tree in some portions of the west is 
the special herald of summer. Its sudden 
and early bursting into full leaf makes it, 
in spring, the most observed of trees, be¬ 
ing even earlier than the European sort. 
It is found wild on the banks of most 
western streams, and there, among forest 
trees, it sometimes attains a height of sixty 
to eighty feet. In open ground its form is 
very rigid, and it forms a globular head 
from twenty to forty feet in height. Fig. 
109 is a specimen of the buckeye growing 
in an English park. Both the blossom 
spikes and the blossoms are smaller than 
on the European species, and of a greenish yellow color that renders 
them less conspicuous. The leaves drop long before those of 
most other trees; even before those of the European horse-chest- 
