THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 111 



Clement Wood, which The Literary Digest quotes with 



approval : 



"The tufted tussock-caterpillar 

 Shoved out of his stiff cocoon. 

 He did not see the blue sky, 

 Nor the sun-roofed splendor of the woods. 

 He looked at his dogwood branch, 

 And he sighed, 'What a lot of work 

 For me to accomplish !' 

 And he began to eat 

 And eat and eat." 



Every country boy, however, knows that when the tussock 

 caterpillar gets out of its cocoon its desire to chew dogwood 

 leaves or any other kind of leaves has vanished. It strikes us 

 that the poet does not know for certain whether he is going or 

 coming, but this may be another of the peculiarities of free 

 verse. — Ed.] 



Black Walnut Wanted. — The virtue of the black wal- 

 nut has been its own undoing. Because it does not readily 

 warp or split, it is the best of all woods for airplane propellers 

 and gunstocks, and the Government finds that the demand 

 greatly exceeds the supply. An appeal, therefore, is being 

 made to all owners of walnut, to assist in getting every avail- 

 able log to market. County agents and boy scouts are being 

 pressed into service for locating walnut trees, and everybody 

 interested in winning the war is urged to report the existence 

 of available material. The logs wanted are at least twelve 

 inches in diameter at the small end and eight or more feet long". 

 The Government does not buy this timber but will put owners 

 in touch with manufacturers who are using it. The price at 

 present is about $90 a thousand feet. A tree that will square 

 twelve inches and make a log sixteen feet long is therefore 

 worth nearly $20. We are frequently told that certain pro- 

 ducts are scarce because of the war, and this is likely to be true 

 of walnuts for some time to come. 



