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Lest any of our native Walnuts should be neglected or aban- 

 doned by any, I annex a description of the different kinds : 



Juglans catharticus is known under the name of Butternut, 

 Oilnut, and White Walnut ; these nuts are used by the Indians 

 as a medicine. 



Juglans nigra, the Black Walnut, is a tree of large size ; its 

 fruit is known to be excellent. 



Juglans olivceformis, Pecan, or Illinois nut, is delicious. The 

 nuts of Juglans sulcata, which is called Thick Shell-bark Hick- 

 ory, and Springfield, and Gloucester nut, are large and well 

 tasted. The Shell-bark Hickory, shag-bark, or scaly-bark 

 Hickory, Juglans alba, is so called on account of its bark, 

 which is torn lengthwise in long loose strips, as in Juglans 

 sulcata. The Juglans tomentosa, the Mucker nut, White-heart 

 Hickory, or common Hickory, and most of the other kinds 

 enumerated, are worth cultivating where there is none, for 

 timber for mechanical purposes ; and that of the Juglans glabra, 

 or Hog nut, is useful for making the old-fashioned splint-brooms. 



HOW TO PROPAGATE. 



Any or all of the foregoing nuts may be made to vegetate 

 by planting them late in autumn in a well prepared soil free 

 from superabundant moisture, and covered with about one inch 

 in depth qf firm mould. When the young trees are three or 

 four years old they may be transplanted where they are to pro- 

 duce fruit. In some localities White Walnuts will succeed well, 

 and the trees will yield fruit in ten to fifteen years ; while in 

 other parts of the country, or in an uncongenial soil, all efforts 

 to make any of the species of the Juglans productive will 

 prove ineffectual. 



Mr. Bridgeman alludes to grafting the Juglans. I have 

 heard others speak of grafting .Walnut-trees, and I have seen 

 it performed, but have never known a scion to grow, nor have 

 I ever met with a person who had seen a living graft on a 

 Butternut, or Black or White Walnut-tree. I have raised 



