JUGLANS 



J. CATHAYENSIS, Dode. 



A tree up to 70 ft. high, with thick young shoots covered the first year with 

 very viscid) gland-tipped hairs, as are also the main-stalks of the leaves, the 

 fruits, and fruit-stalks. Leaves 2 to 3 ft. long, with eleven to seventeen leaflets, 

 which are ovate-oblong, 3 to 6 (occasionally 8) ins. long, half as wide ; obliquely 

 rounded or heart-shaped at the base, taper-pointed, finely toothed, dark green 

 and downy above, paler and with starry down beneath ; midribs with gland- 

 tipped hairs like those of the main leaf-stalk. Male flowers in pendulous, 

 cylindrical catkins 9 to 15 ins. lon<*. Fruits clustered at the end of a stout 

 stalk about 6 ins. long, egg-shaped, ij to if ins. long, pointed. Nut of similar 

 shape, sharply pointed, six- to eight-angled, the angles spiny-toothed ; rind 

 \ to \ in. thick. 



Native of Central and W. China, where it is common. Introduced by 

 Wilson in 1903 to the Coombe Wood nursery, where young trees 8 or 10 ft. high 

 have already borne fruits. Owing to the thickness of the shell, the nuts are of 

 small value for eating, although the kernel is of good flavour. It is a 

 promising, fine-foliaged tree of the same type as J. mandshurica ; they differ 

 chiefly in the fruit, but the present species is a better grower. 



J CINEREA, Linnceus. BUTTER-NUT. 



A tree 50 to 60, rarely 100 ft. high, usually forming a wide-spreading head 

 of branches ; young wood covered with a dense, rusty brown, clammy felt, 

 which partly falls away by the end of the season. Leaves 10 to 20 ins. long, 

 composed of seven to seventeen leaflets, which are 2 to 5 ins. long, f to 2^ ins. 

 wide ; oblong lance-shaped, taper-pointed, obliquely rounded at the base, finely 

 and regularly toothed ; upper surface at first hairy, especially on the midrib ; 

 lower surface covered with soft, star-shaped hairs ; common-stalk thickly 

 furnished with gland-tipped, sticky hairs. Male flowers in catkins 2 to 4 ins. 

 long. Fruits three to five in a drooping cluster, each tapering to a point at the 

 top, rounded at the base, i\ to 2\ ins. long, covered with sticky hairs. Nut i 

 to i^r ins. long, with a short point ; kernel sweet, oily. 



Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced early in the seventeenth 

 century. Although so long cultivated, this tree is comparatively rare in 

 Britain, and is evidently not so well adapted for our climate as the black 

 walnut, rarely bearing fruit. As a small tree it is quite handsome, but grows 

 slowly. According to Elwes, the largest tree in the country, at Coolhurst, 

 Horsham, is a little over 50 ft. high. From J. nigra it differs in its pointed, 

 more . numerous fruits, its more downy leaves, and by a transverse tuft of 

 down between the scar left by each fallen leaf and the bud above it. 



J. CORDIFORMIS, Maximowicz. 



A tree up to 50 ft. 'high; young shoots stout, covered with brownish 

 glandular hairs. Leaves as in J. mandshurica and Sieboldiana, except 

 that the leaflets are somewhat more distinctly heart-shaped at the base, 

 but not enough to afford a reliable means of distinction. Male catkins 

 often i ft. in length. Fruit globose, i\ ins. diameter, produced in dense 

 clusters of ten or more. Nut i^ ins. long, very distinct in shape ; it has 

 a broad, rounded, heart-shaped base, and a slender pointed apex, and is 

 much flattened. 



Native of Japan, but apparently uncommon in a wild state. Although 

 scarcely distinguishable from its allies, J. Sieboldiana and J. mandshurica, 

 in growth, it is very distinct from them in the shape of the nuts, which are 

 offered for sale in the markets of Japanese towns. In my experience this 



