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Trees with Compound Leaves. [D n 



A tree thirty to sixty feet high, or often much higher. 

 Its rich, dark-brown heart-wood is of great value, and has 

 been more widely used in cabinet-work, for interior finish, 

 and for gun-stocks than the wood of any other North 

 American tree. 



Fig. 103. Butternut, White Walnut, y. cinlrea, L. 



Leaves, COMPOUND (odd-feathered ; leaflets, fifteen to seven- 

 teen) ; ALTERNATE \ EDGE OF LEAFLETS SHARP-TOOTHED. 



Outline of leaflet, long egg-shaped or long oval. Apex, 

 taper-pointed. Base, rounded. 



Leaf-stem, downy and "sticky" 



Leaf, twelve to twenty inches long. Leaflet, three inches 

 or more in length ; downy, especially beneath. 



Bark of the branches, light gray and smoothish. Twigs, 

 as well as leaf-stems and fruit, very sticky. 



Fruit, long (two to three inches), pointed. Husk, very 

 sticky ; green at first ; brown when ripe, becoming 

 very dark ; not splitting in sections. Nut, deeply 

 and roughly furrowed and sharp-ridged, with a sweet, 

 oily kernel. September. 



Found, in Southern Canada, and common in New Eng- 

 land and the Middle and Western States. 



A tree twenty to fifty feet high, with a short, stout 

 trunk and very wide-reaching, horizontal branches. The 

 heart-wood is reddish or light brown, not as dark nor as 

 hard as in the Black Walnut. It is used for ornamental 

 cabinet-work and interior finish. 



