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trees in the State. It is easily distinguished by the striking- white- 

 ness of its bark and by the fact that it holds its button balls through- 

 out the winter. It is valuable for the protection it affords river 

 banks and islands against washing. The sycamore's ability to grow 

 on wet lands has had a great deal to do with its preservation for the 

 present market supply. It was formerly used almost entirely for 

 butcher blocks and refrigerator linings, but these special uses are 

 not so important as its demand for veneer in built-up lumber. 

 Quarter-sawed sycamore is ra'pidly growing in popularity. It has a 

 striking grain and goes into sewing machines, furniture, cabinet 

 work and interior finish. Plain sycamore serves for farm imple- 

 ment parts, washing machines, wooden bowls, tool handles and 

 wooden screws and blocks. The uses it serves in Ohio can be dis- 

 cerned from the industries calling for it. The wood is heavy, hard, 

 not strong, very close grained, compact, difficult to split and work. 

 The medullary rays are numerous and conspicuous. Heartwood is 

 brown tinged with red, and sapwood is lighter colored. 



TABLE XIII. Sycamore 



BLACK WALNUT 



Ohio is one of the first states in the production of walnut lumber 

 but the fact that the lumber was manufactured there does not neces- 

 sarily mean it grew in Ohio, though it is found throughout the State. 

 Owing to its value as lumber and its ability to grow fairly rapidly it is 

 a favorite tree for planting. Walnut lumber in earlier days was not 

 appreciated as much at home as in European countries and up to the 

 present time more high grade walnut is sent abroad than is used in 

 America. It has long been used for gunstocks its most exacting 

 use because it is strong, handsome, and shows stains less than any 



