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Indian Chestnut
 

 

 

Indian Horse Chestnut, Aesculus indica ‘Sidney Pearce’

1935

This fine tree sits on the lawn in front of the Nash Conservatory. It is a particularly good flowering form of A. indica selected by Sidney Pearce, the Assistant Curator in the arboretum, in 1935. Three seedlings were transplanted, probably from the Aesculus collection adjacent to the Pavilion Restaurant in the southern end of the gardens, to Little Broad Walk, running from the Main Gate. The three trees remaining today have since been strengthened with three more young trees of wild origin.

 

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