. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. HORSE-CHESTNUT. Horse-chestnut, ^ictilns In'p- pocastanum. Fruit lJ4' to 2' long. This nut shares with the potato, in the minds of many people, the 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
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. HORSE-CHESTNUT. Horse-chestnut, ^ictilns In'p- pocastanum. Fruit lJ4' to 2' long. This nut shares with the potato, in the minds of many people, the 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 from the midrib to the margin of the leaflets. In time they shrivel and fall, leaving the tree almost 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 hippocastanum, has been ac- counted for in many ways. The obvious fact that the 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, Aisculus rubicunda, common in our gardens, is a tree of unknown origin. Professor Sargent inclines to the belief that it is a hybrid between the common Horse-chestnut, ^£s. hippocastamim and Ais. 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 - colora
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