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neighborhood of our fine maples, ashes, and other trees 

 remarkable for their autumnal coloring, the effect, in a 

 warm, dry autumn, is almost magical. Whoever has 

 travelled through what are called the pine barrens of New 

 Jersey in such a season, must have been struck with the 

 gay tints of the numberless forest trees, which line the 

 roads through those sandy plains, and with the conspicuous 

 beauty of the Sweet gum, or Liquidamber. 



The bark of this tree when full grown, or nearly so, is 

 ?xceedingly rough and furrowed, like that of the oak. The 

 wood is fine-grained, and takes a good polish in cabinet 

 work ; though it is not so durable, nor so much esteemed 

 for such purposes, as that of the Black walnut and some 

 other native trees. The average height of full grown trees 

 is about 35 or 40 feet. 



Liquidambar styraciflua is the only North American 

 species. It grows most rapidly in moist or even wet situa 

 tions, though it will accommodate itself to a drier soil. 



THE WALNUT TREE. Juglans. 



Nat. Ord. Juglandaceae. Lin. Syst. MoncEcia, Polyandria. 



The three trees which properly come under this head 

 and belong to the genus Juglans, are the Black walnut, the 

 European walnut, and the Butternut. 



The Black walnut is one of the largest trees of our native 

 forests. In good soils it often attains a stature of 60 or 70 

 feet, and a diameter of three or four feet in the trunk, with 

 a corresponding amplitude of branches. The leaves, about 

 a foot or eighteen inches in length, are composed of six or 



