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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



THB BLACK WALNUT — JUGLANS NIGEA. 



Like the Tropeolte (Capucines,) which resemble 

 them, the Balsams present us with a remarkable 

 variety in the color of their flowers, and the 

 species under consideration exhibits this, in a high 

 degree, in a mixture more curious than harmonious 

 of creen, yellow, and red. 



The Iiu]HUicns JcrdonicB is a native of the Neil- 

 gherry Hills ; its stalks, which are carneous, of a 

 deep violet brown color, and of the size of one's 

 little finger, and very smooth, are generally pro- 

 vided with joints, which render them very fragile; 

 the edges of its leaves, which are oval, thin, and of 

 a bright green luie, are furnished with teeth, ter- 

 minating in a sort of brown or violet colored gland ; 

 the flowers spring from the summit of short, ax- 

 illary peduncles, and are supjiorted by long, straight 

 pedicles, of a beautiful carmine red color, the tops 

 of which are lost in the bases of the calycine 

 leaflets. In short, the original character of the 

 flower of the Impatiens Jerdonia, and its ])rofuse 

 crop of flowers, make it desirable, and class it 

 in onr greenhouses with ih& Impatiens pla(yj)etali^ 

 JJooleriatia, etc. Like the latter, and the Imj). 

 glandnUgera, lioyhana, fulrn^ etc., which so 

 greatly contrilmte to the beauty of groups jdanted 

 in the shade, it rcipiires the same care in cultiva- 

 tion. — /. Deeaisne in JRcvue Jlorticole, translated 

 for the Horticulturist. 



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A coRP.EsroxDEXT says : — I have observed that 

 when I prune apple trees in the summer, suckers 

 seldom start from the wound ; but when in spring, 

 more or less suckers generally grow. The month 

 of July I think is the proper time to prune ; wounds 

 then will soon heal over. 



THE BLACK WALNTIT TEEE. 



There are few more beautiful ornamenta 

 useful trees than the Black "Walnut (Juglans r, 

 Well does Dr. Lindlet call it the ^^nohle 

 American "Walnut." It is better apprecia 

 Europe than in this its native country. C 

 banks and islands of the Ohio river, Michau 

 he has often seen trees three or four feet in 

 eter, and sixty or seventy feet in height ; an 

 it is not rare to find them six or seven feet in 

 eter. ""When it stands isolated," he adds 

 branches, extending themselves hnrizontally 

 great distance, spread into a spacious head, 

 gives it a very majestic appearance." Do' 

 well observes: "The Blaok "Walnut has i 

 claims upon the Landscape Gardener, as it 

 of the grandest and most massive trees wh 

 can employ." It is admirably adapted to ext 

 lawns, where there is no want of room fc 

 attainment of its full size and fair proportions 

 rapid growth and umbrageous foliage also r- 

 mend it for wide public streets and avenues. 



Of the fruit of the Black "Walnut, and ( 

 value of the wood, we need say nothing. Th 

 begins to bear when from eight to ten year 

 and age increases its fertility. In New Yor 

 fruit is not as large or as fine flavored as in 

 tucky or Ohio ; but even here it is highly este 

 The tree is ea.sily propagated, and shoidd be 

 extensively planted. 



