GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES 



Late in the year the foliage has become 

 scanty, and the nut -clusters hang fascinatingly 

 clear, far above one's head, to tempt the climb 

 and the club. The black walnut is a tree that 

 needs our care ; for furniture fashion long used 

 its close-grained, heavy, handsome wood as 

 cruelly as the milliners did the herons of 

 Florida from which were torn the "aigrets," 

 now happily "out of style." Though walnut 

 furniture is no longer the most popular, the 

 deadly work has been done, for the most part, 

 and but few of these wide -spread old forest 

 monarchs yet remain. Scientific forestry is now 

 providing, in many plantings, and in many 

 places, another "crop" of walnut timber, 

 grown to order, and using waste land. It is 

 to such really beneficent, though entirely com- 

 mercial work, that we must look for the future 

 of many of our best trees. 



The butternut, or white walnut, has never 

 seemed so interesting to me, nor its fruit so 

 palatable, probably because I have seen less of 

 it. The so-called "English" walnut, which is 

 really the Persian walnut, is not hardy in the 

 eastern part of the United States, and, while 



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