ARBORETUM NOTES. 99 
JUGLANDEZ. 
The finest in the arboretum, planted 1825 (?) Juglans nigra 
measures five feet round; but this is not a fair 
measurement, as the trunk divides, very near the 
eround into two parts, and though one of these 
was cut off several years ago, yet the other stem 
has hardly yet attained to the bulk it would have 
had if single. This tree bears abundance of fruit, 
and in favourable seasons (as after the hot 
summers of 1858 and 1859) these grow to a 
considerable size and become apparently ripe, but 
not eatable. 
The bark of the trunk is very rugged with strong 
prominent ridges, intersecting one another so as to 
leave somewhat lozenge shape hollows or de- 
pressions between them. 
This tree stands very near the great Cephalonian 
Fir. Another black Walnut, near the Atsculus 
Eidica, im the more western part of )the 
arboretum, measures five feet, two inches 1n girth, 
but has not so fine a head as the first. A third 
tree (standing not far from the fern-leaved Beech) 
is taller and more erect in growth, and will perhaps 
ultimately be a finer tree, but its trunk does not at 
present exceed four feet, three inches in circum- 
ference. (October, 1868.) 
The large black Walnut in the arboretum is 
perfectly loaded with fruit; after the first gale of 
wind of the season (October 24), the ground 
beneath was thickly strewn with the fruit looking 
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