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it is fast growing in disgrace, this tribe is the 

 best substitute. This kind seldom exceeds 

 fifty feet high, is generally round-headed, 

 with an inclination to become flat. The 

 finest specimen at Bartram is fifty-five feet 

 high and fifty- four inches in circumference. 



It thrives best in a cool, deep, and rich 

 loam ; and is best propagated by sowing the 

 nuts about four inches apart, in rows, early 

 in spring, covering them about two inches 

 deep. They are in general difficult to trans 

 plant, and the sooner they are removed to 

 their final positions the better. They also 

 take easily by grafting on each other. . 



2. J. NTGRA, Linnceus. Leaflets about fif 

 teen, ovate lanceolate, nearly heart-shaped 

 at the base. Fruit globose, dotted, spongy. 

 Nut nearly round, wrinkled. Black walnut. 



This is a larger tree every way than the 

 preceding, and the handsomest of the group. 

 It is somewhat round-headed, but frequently 

 quite cylindrical, or even conical. They 

 should always grow by themselves, on ac 

 count of their unneighborly propensity of 

 injuring everything growing about them. 

 The finest Bartram specimen is eighty feet 

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