The following are tables of hardy flowering trees and shrubs, and comprise only species and varieties suitable, unless otherwise stated, for almost all parts of the British Isles. An asterisk (*) denotes those of the first importance. This way has been adopted to compress as much information as possible into a small space.
-------------------+----------------+----------+--------------------------- | COUNTRY OR | COLOUR | NAME. | ORIGIN AND | AND | GENERAL REMARKS. | NATURAL ORDER. | SEASON. | -------------------+----------------+----------+--------------------------- | | | Æsculus (Pavia), |Sapindaceæ | |A well-known group Horse Chestnut, | | |represented most largely by Buck-eye | | |the Horse Chestnut, which | | |is the tallest of the | | |species. The Æsculi | | |generally are of medium | | |size, and not very | | |particular about soil or | | |position. The smaller | | |growers were at one time | | |placed in a distinct genus, | | |Pavia, but now placed with | | |Æsculus. The more shrubby | | |species are welcome in the | | |garden, where the Horse | | |Chestnut would be out of | | |place. | | | *Æ. carnea |Hybrid between |Bright |This is a handsome tree for |Æ. Hippocastanum|red; late |the garden, and is |and Æ. Pavia. |May and |generally about 15 feet |Synonymous with |early June|high in Britain. Its chief |Æ. rubicunda | |charm is in the profusion | | |and brilliant red colouring | | |of the flower-spikes. It is | | |not of quick growth, but | | |flowers when very young. | | |It will be found in many | | |lists under the name of Æ. | | |rubicunda, the red Horse | | |Chestnut. Rosea is a good | | |variety recommended by Mr. | | |Anthony Waterer as a "tree | | |for planting in smoky | | |districts." Another fine | | |variety, peculiarly bright | | |in flower colouring, is Æ. | | |Brioti. | | | Æ. flava |A native of |Pale |Those who want a tree in |Carolina and |yellow |this family of distinct |Virginia, on | |colour will find pleasure |mountain slopes;| |probably in this, but its |introduced in | |colouring is dull, and the |1764. Sanguinea | |flowers are not plentiful. |has red flowers.| | | | | *Æ. Hippocastanum |From the |White; |The common Horse Chestnut (Common Horse |mountains of |late May |is too well known to Chestnut) |Greece. Gerard |or early |describe. It is not a tree |mentions the |June. |for very exposed places, as |Horse Chestnut |There is |its large leaves offer |in his "Herbal" |consider- |considerable resistance to |in 1579 as a |able |the wind, and get torn and |rare foreign |variation,|unsightly. The double |tree |as many of|variety (flore-pleno) is | |the trees |very distinct, having quite | |in parks |double flowers. Foliis | |and |aureis variegatis is a | |gardens |variegated variety, as the | |have been |name suggests, with | |raised |blotches of yellow on the | |from seed |leaves; and laciniata has | | |cut foliage. | | | Æ. indica |Nepaul, and |White, |This distinct and beautiful |other parts of |with |tree is perhaps the rarest |Northern India. |yellow and|of the Horse Chestnuts in |On the Himalaya |red |cultivation, and is not so |the tree reaches|blotches |robust as the common |a height of 70 |at the |species. It flowered in |feet, with a |base of |England as long ago as 1858 |trunk 3 feet |the |at Mildenhall in Suffolk, |through |petals; |but has been little heard | |Summer |of. It is a tree doubtless | | |for the Cornish and | | |Devonshire and southern | | |coast gardens where the | | |Himalayan Rhododendrons | | |thrive well. Sir Joseph | | |Hooker, during his Himalaya | | |travels fifty years ago, | | |saw it loaded with its | | |white racemes, and equal in | | |beauty to the common Horse | | |Chestnut of English parks. | | |Its foliage is quite | | |distinct from that of the | | |other species, the leaflets | | |numbering seven or nine, | | |and being of a dark glossy | | |green. In the other Horse | | |Chestnuts the leaflets are | | |usually only five to each | | |leaf, and never more than | | |seven. The racemes of this | | |Indian species are about 8 | | |inches long, the flowers | | |being white, with blotches | | |of yellow and red at the | | |base of the petals. | | | *Æ. (Pavia) |North America. |White |This is better known as P. parviflora |On river banks |fragrant |macrostachya, and is a low, |in Georgia. |flowers |spreading shrub 8 to 10 |Introduced to |sometimes |feet high; the leaves |England by Mr. |tinged |consist of five to seven |John Fraser in |with pink,|finely serrated leaflets, |1786 |and long |covered underneath with a | |stamens, |whitish tomentum.