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42. The Black Walnut and Butternut. Perhaps no 

 two trees are so difficult for the city boy or girl to 

 distinguish as the butternut and black walnut. Both 

 have compound leaves, the number of leaflets varying 

 from nine to seventeen for the butternut and from 

 fifteen to twenty-three for the black walnut. A leaf 

 having fifteen leaflets, then, might belong to either tree 

 if there were no other way to distinguish them. The 

 teeth on the black-walnut leaflet are larger and sharper 

 than on the butternut, and the fuzzy stem is lacking. 

 The green nuts, too, are different, the black walnuts 

 being just about the size and shape of green lemons, 

 the butternuts longer and thinner; but the unmistak- 

 able feature is the odor. Having once smelled the 

 crushed leaves of a butternut and a black walnut, a 

 person will thereafter need no other test. 



The use of black-walnut lumber for making furniture 

 was at one time very common. The great supply of 

 this valuable wood has been exhausted and other woods 

 have become fashionable. It is still used for gunstocks, 

 for which purpose nothing seems better suited. 



Butternut is a light-colored wood, but takes a good 

 polish and is occasionally used in cabinet work. 



43. The Locusts. The locust family is a large one ; its 

 members all bear compound leaves, and their fruit is in 

 the form of beans instead of nuts. 



