88 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
good, but inclosed in a thin, brownish-colored, brittle sub- 
stance that is intensely bitter; tree a slender grower, but 
Fig. 26. 
handsome; wood not as valuable as some of the more 
Northern species; native of Southern Illinois and south- 
ward, ‘This species deserves to be extensively cultivated 
for its excellent nuts, which always command an almost — 
exorbitant price in the Eastern cities. The past season 
the retail price in New York was eighty cents per quart. 
