Æsculus Hippocastanum, now so common with us, though, as I have learnt from Mr. Hawkins[1], a native of Mount Pinclus in Arcadia, is a fine example of large and well-formed buds; and some of the American Walnuts are still more remarkable.
It has been already remarked, p. 90, that buds resist cold only till they begin to grow: hence, according to the nature and earliness of their buds, plants differ in their powers of bearing a severe or variable climate.
Grew is elaborate on the forms of buds, and the arrangement of the spots apparent within them when cut transversely, which indicate the number and situation of their vessels. It was the character of this excellent man to observe every thing, without reference to any theory, and his book is a storehouse of facts relating to vegetation. Loefling, a favourite pupil of Linnaeus, wrote, under the eye of his great teacher, an essay on this subject, published in the Amænitates Academicæ, v. 2, in which the various forms of buds, and the different disposition of the
- ↑ See a note on this subject, which Mr. R. P. Knight has honoured with a place in the second edition of his poem on Landscape.
