Sweet Chestnut

That was in the middle of March, when all birds were singing, and the young leaves showing on the hawthorns, so that there were pale green clouds, as it were, betwixt the great grey boles of oak and sweet-chestnut; and by the lake the meadow-saffron new-thrust-up was opening its blossom; and ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the lower slopes of the range, below the grassy spaces where the wild horses grazed, were forests of yew and sweet-chestnut and elm, and the thickets and dark places hid the grizzly bear and the hyæna, and the grey apes clambered through the branches. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Tufted spleenwort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Tufted spleen-wort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Thereafter they came on woods of oak and sweet-chestnut, with here and there a beech-wood. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Dusk fell on them in a little valley, through which ran a stream bushed about its edges, and which for the rest was grassy and pleasant, with big sweet-chestnut trees scattered about it. ❋ William Morris (1865)

So he came to where the land was level, and there were many trees, as oak and ash, and sweet-chestnut and wych-elm, and hornbeam and quicken-tree, not growing in a close wood or tangled thicket, but set as though in order on the flowery greensward, even as it might be in a great king's park. ❋ William Morris (1865)