. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. its contents. We have already hinted that the husk of aSweet Chestnut is a different thing altogetherfrom that of a Horse Chestnut, and that thecontents are different also. Now we have toprove our assertions. It would be easy enoughto do this bad we the flowers of the Chestnutbefore us—but we have not ; but we do notdespair on that account, if we can induce thereader to bear in mind what has been saidabout the Horse Chestnut, and to compare care-fully the one with the other. The husk of the Sweet Che
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. its contents. We have already hinted that the husk of aSweet Chestnut is a different thing altogetherfrom that of a Horse Chestnut, and that thecontents are different also. Now we have toprove our assertions. It would be easy enoughto do this bad we the flowers of the Chestnutbefore us—but we have not ; but we do notdespair on that account, if we can induce thereader to bear in mind what has been saidabout the Horse Chestnut, and to compare care-fully the one with the other. The husk of the Sweet Chestnut is a leatherycup, densely spiny outside, soft and velvety within, and split half-way down into four spear-shaped pieces (fig. 105). Before we can decideon its nature, we must, in the absence ofother evidence such as the young flowerswould have given us, seek information fromits contents. It contains three nuts,but these three are ranged in one line, notat the angles of a triangle, as in the case ofthe Horse Chestnut. They are not exactlyof the same nature as the seeds of the Horse. Fig. 1-^3 -HUSK OR CAPSULE OF HORSE CHESTNUTAND SEED.
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