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54. (195.) Juglans ciiierea. Butternut; White Walnut. 



By no means a common tree, except in certain restricted localities. 

 Though very much inferior to J. nigra in stature, it sometimes attains a 

 considerable size, two felled trees, in the "Timber Settlement," Wabash 

 County, measuring 97 and 117 feet in length, and each 1 foot 10 inches 

 in diameter, with clear trunks 50 and 32 feet long. These trees grew 

 withiu a few rods of one another, the species being very common in 

 that locality. 



55. (196.) Juglans nigra. Black Walnut; "Walnut." 



The Black Walnut was, originally, a very abundant tree throughout 

 the rich bottom lands of the Wabash and White Rivers, but is now rap- 

 idly becoming scarce. Trees of this species, 5 or 6 feet in diameter, 

 with straight, solid trunks 40 to GO feet in the clear, were formerly com- 

 mon, but the finest trees have long been destroyed. Eight walnut 

 trees, of less than medium size, were found freshly felled, in the bot 

 toms of Greathouse Creek, about two miles west of Mount Carmel, and 

 carefully measured, with the following result: Average length, 100^ 

 feet; average length of trunk, 47^ feet; average circumference, 9^ feet. 

 Extreme measurements: length, 97^ to 119^; trunk, 35 J to CO; circum- 

 ference, 8 to lOJ. In the river bottoms the growth is much larger. One 

 very fine tree measured 5J feet across the top of the stump, 42^ feet to 

 the first limb, 75 feet to the second limb, and 131 feet to the extreme 

 top. A perfectly sound and very symmetrical standing tree, of which 

 photographs were taken, measured 18 feet in girth at a yard from the 

 ground, had an ambitus of 97 feet, and was little, if any, less than 150 

 feet high, the trunk alone being over 70 feet to the first limb, on main 

 fork. 



Tiie following measurements represent, very fairly, the size of Black 

 Walnut trees which have been cut for lumber in the vicinity of Mount 

 Carmel : 



Eemarks.— /, trunk 3 feet diameter at upper endj g^ ditto. 



