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valuable trees we have but unfortunately is one of the 

 scarcest. It grows naturally only in southwestern 

 Ontario and is found now scattered on farms. The wood 

 is hard, dark in colour, and is used for making furniture, 

 cases for organs and pianos, and gun-stocks. The white 

 walnut or butternut may be distinguished from the 

 black walnut by the twigs which are downy and clammy. 

 The nut is longer than broad. The butternut is found 

 from New Brunswick and along the St. Lawrence 

 valley to Georgian bay in Ontario. The wood is soft 

 and light in colour as compared with the black walnut 

 and is used for planking for boats and for interior finish. 



THE HICKORIES 



There are six species of hickory in Canada, but none 

 of them are found west of Ontario. They are related to 

 the walnuts and like them have compound leaves, 

 though smaller, and smaller nuts. The bitternut hickory 

 is one of the most generally distributed. Its bark is grey 

 and rough, recent shoots are an orange-green colour and 

 dotted, and the nut is bitter. Its winter buds are 

 sulphur-yellow in colour. 

 The shagbark hickory is 

 named and distinguished by 

 its bark flaking or shagging 

 loose in plates which are free 

 at both ends, and by its sweet 

 nuts. The wood is among 

 the toughest, strongest, and 

 hardest in Canada, and is 

 used chiefly for vehicles, 

 tool-handles, agricultural im- 

 plements, machinery parts 

 and sporting goods. &/ffcmu/- hickory 



