BLACK WALNUT FOR BEAUTY AND UTILITY 



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A MAGNIFICENT AVENUE OF BLACK WALNUT AT CHICO, CALIFORNIA 



The native California black walnut is often effectively used along roadways and private driveways on 

 the Pacific Coast, as its pendulous beauty gives dense and grateful shade. This is a beautiful planting. 



in a greater 

 variety of ways 

 and for special 

 purposes more 

 e x c 1 u s i vely 

 than was any 

 other single 

 species. It may 

 well be ranked 

 with the heroes 

 of the war, and 

 as such it 

 should not be 

 forgo tten in 

 connection with 

 the monuments 

 being establish- 

 ed for those 

 who did not 

 come back. So 

 well did it per- 

 form its duty, 

 and so impor- 

 tant was its 



duty, that it might appropriately be called the Liberty tree. 

 "On the beautiful capitol grounds in Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia, there is a group of trees set out because of 

 their historical 

 interest. There 

 is a red maple 

 fromAntietam, 

 Mary land ; a 

 white elm from 

 near McKin- 

 ley's tomb, 

 Canton, Ohio ; 

 a white ash 

 from Vicks- 

 burg, Missis- 

 sippi, and many 

 others from 

 equally distinc- 

 tive points. 

 These trees are 

 studied with 

 surpassing in- 

 terest by visi- 

 tors from many 

 states and for- 

 eign lands. 

 Could anything 

 be more befit- 

 ting to the 

 memory to a 

 fallen soldier 



THE BLACK WALNUT FRIEND OF MAN BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD 



A beautiful tree for roadside planting. This is the Eastern form and it is one of the most widely distri- 

 buted of America's better class of native trees. With fertile soil and congenial climate, single specimens 

 often develop trunk diameters of from three to four feet at breast height. 



underl ayed 

 with firm but 

 not overly hard 

 clay subsoils, 

 moist yet well 

 drained, it is 

 one of the most 

 i apid growing 

 of America's 

 more valuable 

 forest trees. It 

 should never be 

 planted in 

 coarse, gravel- 

 ly, stiff heavy 

 clay, or thin 

 sandy soils. 

 Pre f erably it 

 should have 

 only the most 

 fertile soils, 

 such as are 

 typical of the 

 alluvial sections 

 in the Mississippi Valley. It is perhaps most common in 

 the States of Kansas and Missouri, east to Michigan, 

 Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Splendid specimens are 



reported from 

 Western North 

 Carolina. Rec- 

 ords and' pho- 

 tographs are 

 on file in the 

 Department of 

 A gr i culture 

 offices of indi- 

 vidual trees on 

 Long Island 

 and on what is 

 known as the 

 Niagara Penin- 

 sula of On- 

 tario, not far 

 from Niagara 

 Falls, which 

 have trunk 

 d i a m eters at 

 breast height 

 of from three 

 to four feet. 

 Equally large 

 or even larger 

 specimens 

 could doubtless 

 be found in 



than to plant a walnut tree grown from a nut produced many other localities. During recent years nut tree 



at such historical points as these? nurserymen have developed and are now propagating 



"There is a popular prejudice that the black walnut is three promising varieties of the Eastern black walnut. 



a slow grower, but the fact is that in fertile, loamy soils These are the Thomas, Stabler and Ohio, from Pennsyl- 



