BLACK WALNUT. 



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takes a beautiful polish, receives paint well, and is used for 

 interior finish, cabinet work, panels of carriages, and occasionally 

 for the lower framework of buildings. The inner ])ark yields a 

 yellow dye, and is employed as a mild cathartic. 



Jug-lans nigra, Linnaeus. 

 (black walnut.) 



A large tree, of the first commercial value, with a small oval 

 crown and rough very dark brown bark, reaching a height of 150 

 and a diameter of 1() feet or more. 



It occurs from western Massachusetts to eastern Nebraska and 

 Kansas, and south to northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and 

 the valley of the San Antonio river in Texas ; reaching its best 

 development in the rich bottom lands of southwestern Arkansas 

 and Indian Territory, and on the western slopes of the southern 

 Allegluniy mountains. 



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In this State, where it grows to an average height of 4<i to 50 

 feet, it is most abundant on tlie Piedmont plateau, but is found 

 throughout. (Fig. 15.) 



Forest trees bear seed abundantly only every 3 or -i years, and 

 young seedlings are not common except near mature trees in low 

 fertile rather open lands or in fields and meadows which border 

 streams. The growth is very ra]»id until a large size is reached. 



