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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



AMERICAN WALNUT LOGS, HEWN OCTAGONAL FOR EXPORT. MANY LOGS LEFT AMERICA 

 BEFORE THE WAR IN THIS FORM. SINCE THE WAR THERE HAVE BEEN BUT FEW SUCH 

 LOGS SHIPPED TO EUROPE 



planes and gun stocks, for which no other substitute 

 could be found in sufficient quantities. Mr. Secrest says 

 that with proper care trees may be grown from seed or 

 transplanting of small trees to a state of maturity where 

 the wood will be of as great value as that of the original 

 forest. 



In Pennsylvania the State Forestry Department has 

 undertaken extensive seed planting in an effort to re- 

 store the black walnut. One hundred fifty bushels of 

 seed have been planted in especially prepared ground at 

 Mont Alto and should produce 100,000 seedlings for 

 next spring. Many requests have been received from 

 owners of woodland who desire to start groves of 

 the trees. 



Walnut which had been originally specially selected 

 for the manufacture of gun stocks for the use 

 of the Allied Armies has been used to make what is 

 probably the most beautiful interior of a religious struc- 

 ture in the country, that of one of the Methodist Churches 

 in Kansas City, Missouri. The entire interior trim, 

 furniture and pews is of black walnut, even the paneling 

 about the side walls and pipe organ being worked from 

 a single walnut log, a specimen of the kind for which 

 experts are always on the lookout but seldom if ever are 

 fortunate enough to find. 



The beauty and grain of the wood conduces to harmony 

 and richness of tone, the soft colors of the walnut being 

 so fitted and blended that they produce the effect of a 

 great painting, where the qualities of" simplicity and 

 depth predominate. 



The family name for walnut is derived from "Jovis 

 Glans," or nut of Jupiter. In ancient times, walnut was 

 called "Regia." or royal, and "Juglans Regia" is the 

 name of the European walnut. This species is spread 

 over Europe and has been planted in California. The 

 white "English walnuts" of commerce are of this species, 

 as is also the cabinet wood known as "Circassian walnut." 

 The Circassian walnut wood of commerce comes from 



near the Black Sea, where the 

 trees grow under very un- 

 favorable conditions, their 

 struggle for life producing 

 the weird, twisted, streaked 

 wood which was once so 

 popular as a cabinet wood. 



European authorities and 

 craftsmen have long been 

 partial to American walnut, 

 agreeing in its superior color, 

 figure, strength and texture to 

 the wonderful walnut grown 

 in Italy, France and Spain. 

 American walnut (or black 

 walnut, as it is often called) 

 ranges from Massachusetts 

 and South Ontario west 

 through the southern half of 

 the Lake States to Middle 

 Nebraska and Kansas, to Cen- 

 tral Texas and Northern Florida. American walnut was 

 called "Dent-soo-kwa-no-ne" by the Indians of New 



A PLANTED GROVE OF AMERICAN WALNUT TREES ALREADY 

 PRODUCING AN ABUNDANT CROP OF NUTS. NOTICE THAT 

 EVEN A HEAVY STAND OF WALNUT TREES DOES NOT KILL 

 OUT THE GRASS 





