. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HORSE-CHESTNUT. Horse-chestnut, /Esculus hip pocaitaniiiti. Fruit [ ^2 to 2' long. This nut shares with the potato, in tlie minds of many people, tlie occult power of being able to cure rheumatism by being carried on the person of the sufferer. The tree is subject to a serious disease, now common and widely spread throughout the northern United States, which is due to a fun- gus. This appears upon the leaf in early summer in the form of a yellow discoloration with a reddish margin. Late
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HORSE-CHESTNUT. Horse-chestnut, /Esculus hip pocaitaniiiti. Fruit [ ^2 to 2' long. This nut shares with the potato, in tlie minds of many people, tlie occult power of being able to cure rheumatism by being carried on the person of the sufferer. The tree is subject to a serious disease, now common and widely spread throughout the northern United States, which is due to a fun- gus. This appears upon the leaf in early summer in the form of a yellow discoloration with a reddish margin. Later, the patches become quite brown, giving the leaves the appearance of having been scorched by fire, some- times extending from the midrib to the margin of the leaflets. In time they shrivel and fall, leaving the tree ahiiost leafless in midsum- mer. The liability to this disease is a serious objection to the tree. The name Horse-chestnut, which is only a literal transla- tion of the specific Latin name hippocastaiiuin, has been ac- counted for in many ways. The obvrous fact that tlie scar of the leaf-stem really looks like the imprint of a horse's hoof seems the most reasonable explanation of the name ; many plants have been named for less. The finest plantation of Horse-chestnuts in the world is that of Bushey Park near Hampton Court, the ancient pal- ace of Cardinal Wolsey. Five rows of trees stand on each side of the avenue, and when these trees are in bloom the daily papers announce the fact and all London goes out to see the sight. The Red Horse-chestnut, ALsciiliis rubicuiida, common in our gardens, is a tree of unknown origin. Professor Sargent mclines to the belief that it is a hybrid between the common Horse-chestnut, .Es. /lippocastaimm and .-Es. pavia of the southern states. It resembles the former in its leaves and the latter in its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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