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the pecan hickory for that position. There can be 

 no other trees in the contest if usefulness looms 

 large among score points. It would be a pity to 

 choose any tree to represent our United States with 

 utility features playing in second role. Both trees 

 are majestic giants in strength. Both bear prodi- 

 gious crops. Both species during the present century 

 will be grown from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico 

 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Delicacy 

 of the pecan nut will be balanced by richness of the 

 black walnut in score points. The pecan is the more 

 purely beautiful excepting for selected varieties, but 

 the value of the black walnut timber far exceeds that 

 of pecan timber and the hulls and shells of black 

 walnuts enter into special fields in the industries 

 aside from the comestible value of young nuts pre- 

 served like those of the Persian walnut. 



Mr. T. P. Littlepage at the Seventh Annual Meet- 

 ing of the Northern Nut Growers' Association pre- 

 sented a photograph of curly black walnut wood 

 from a tree in Kentucky which brought thirty-five 

 hundred dollars. If scions from that tree had been 

 employed for grafting several thousand other black 

 walnut stocks, the timber value alone regardless of 

 the nut crop would be worthy of a few minutes spent 

 with pencil and paper. A peculiar variety will de- 

 velop its own type of wood as well as its own type 

 of fruit when grafted upon other stocks. Black 

 walnut trees of the ordinary type of wood some- 

 times reach one hundred and fifty feet in height, 

 with a trunk diameter of more than six feet. The 



