TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 



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Long before him it knew the 

 earth, and it has outgrown him; 

 but meekly it falls before his 

 will. So great has been the 

 demand for the beautiful, dark 

 brown heart-wood of the black 

 walnut that it may now almost 

 be said to no longer exist in 

 the American forests. And 

 many of the trees that are ap- 

 proaching a marketable size 

 have already been bought " on 

 the stump " by lumbermen. 

 Those trees that Once covered 

 vast tracts of forest land in 

 the Mississippi basin are now 

 no more, and east of the Alle- 

 ghany mountains they are also 

 scarce. During the civil war 



Juglans nigra. 



gun stocks were largely made of the wood of the black walnut, 

 and trees were not planted to replace those that were destroyed. 

 As we all know, the meat of the nuts has a fine, rich flavour ; 

 but it is somewhat difficult of access, as it is most skilfully 

 fastened within the shells. In cultivation the tree has a sombre 

 aspect, and it is unfortunate that the fall web-worms eat so 

 ravenously its foliage. 



BUTTERNUT. WHITE WALNUT. OILNUT. (Plate CXV.) 

 Jiiglans cinerea. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE 



Walnut. Unsymmetrical ; branches, 30-50-100 New England south- 

 horizontal, feet. ward to Ga. and 



westward. 



TIME OF BLOOM 



May. 

 Fruit: Oct., Nov. 



Bark : light brown ; deeply ridged. Branchlets : light grey; rough. Twigs ; 

 sticky. Leaf-buds; scaly; pubescent. Leaves: compound; alternate; with 

 pubescent and sticky stalks; odd-pinnate, with from eleven to seventeen long, 

 oval, sessile leaflets, taper-pointed at the apex and rounded at the base ; sharply 



