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“ Singularly enough, I bought one as an elm out of a garden not 
300 yards from my sawmill, so I am fortunately able to send you a 
specimen of the English-grown wood ; it was about 15 feet long by 
20 inches quarter girth, and had forty annual rings. You will note 
that the wood has obtained from our English soil the very character 
American wood is so deficient in, viz., hardness and weight, 
‘approaching in this respect the character of Italian walnut, or what 
is represented by the words ‘good quality.’ I am now making 
from this tree a sideboard which will, I think, be a beautiful 
specimen of woodwork.” A section of Kew-grown timber on view in 
the Forestry Museum, shows that the wood is capable of taking a 
high polish. The price of imported wood in April of the present 
year varied from 2s. a cubic foot for inferior qualities to 5s. a 
cubic foot for the better samples. Boards realised somewhat higher 
prices. 
Juglans nigra is a native of N. America, being found widely 
distributed from southern Ontario to the Southern United States. 
Details of its distribution and botanical characteristics are to be 
found in Sargent’s “Silva of N. America,” vii. pp. 121-124, 
weeds beneath. Though sometimes raised in nurseries and trans- 
planted to permanent places when quite young, recommendations 
are made that seeds should be sown where the trees are to grow in 
order to avert the risk of transplanting. Intervals of 6 or 8 feet 
are advised to be left each way between the trees, the intervening 
spaces being planted with some shade-enduring species in order to 
suppress the side branches, 
