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WHERE TO PLANT HORSE CHESTNUTS 
^^CCASIONALLY horse chestnuts 
are found as street trees, a posi¬ 
tion they are not at all fitted for. The 
reflection of heat from the paved street 
causes the foliage to burn and blight, 
often causing the foliage to disfigure the 
trees in summer. On the other hand, 
plant trees of it on a lawn where there is 
none of the trials of a street for them to 
undergo, and see the difference! No 
burning of the leaves, but trees of lovely 
foliage, lasting until late in autumn. 
The horse chestnut delights in a moist, 
cool situation, but it demands coolness of 
soil; conditions it meets with to a great 
extent when it grows in sod. 
The common European horse chest¬ 
nut is well known to everyone, and when 
of mature age is one of the grandest trees 
extant. The double-flowered variety of 
it, alba plena, possesses all its good 
qualities in addition to having double 
flowers, which are a great merit. Single 
flowers are preferred by many, but there 
is no gainsaying that double ones are far 
more lasting, and in the case of the horse 
chestnut the panicles ol blossoms last a 
full week longer when they are double. 
The red-flowered horse chestnut is one 
of the most beautiful of flowering trees. 
It does not make as large, massive a tree 
as the common one; otherwise its habit 
ol growth is similar. Where its original 
home is seems undetermined. It is 
credited to this country by European 
authorities, hut just to what part, or 
where, is unknown. It is, however, a 
beautiful tree, its leaves being of a bright 
shining dark green, forming a splendid 
groundwork for its large panicles of 
bright red flowers. As both it and the 
other horse chestnuts are easily trans¬ 
planted, this adds greatly to their popu- 
laritv, as does the fact that to increase the 
common one from seeds and the others 
by budding or grafting, is a compara¬ 
tively easy operation. — Florists’ Ex¬ 
change. 
A PLANT which rivals the trailing 
^ ^ arbutus in fragrance is the hardy 
evergreen, sweet daphne. This is a 
little shrubby plant which succeeds under 
practically the same conditions as aza¬ 
leas and rhododendrons, and should be 
planted with them. In the spring it 
yields deliciously fragrant small pink 
flowers, and blooms again in September, 
though not quite so profusely. 
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