Dendrology 



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good for handles and finds many uses 

 about the farm. It produces consider- 

 able quantities of seed and may readily 

 be grown from seed. It will grow in any 

 average woods soil, and in any woodlot in 

 which it does not occur, it is well worth 

 while to encourage its introduction. 



The walnuts. Fig. 23 



The walnuts are very desirable trees 

 to have about the farm and woodlot. 

 Of the walnuts native to the United 

 States, there are but two species in the 

 East and these are easily distinguished 

 from each other. In some sections of 

 the country the hickories are locally 

 called walnuts. This is not correct and 

 leads to confusion. The English walnut 

 also is found frequently planted about 

 homes, but it has been introduced from 

 Europe and does not belong to our trees. 

 The black walnut and the butternut are 

 quite different in their development as 

 trees. The former is by far the better 

 tree as well as the more valuable for its 

 wood. The heart wood of this walnut 

 is very dark colored and has a very fine 

 grain, making it a very desirable and 

 costly wood for furniture of all kinds. 

 The roots of large trees are also very valuable, particularly 

 for gun stocks. Good well-developed black walnut can 



FIG. 23. Branch of 

 butternut (Juglans 

 cinered), showing 

 chambered pith. 



