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young tree ; but I still have a plant in my garden in 

 Walbrae Place. 



18. The Butternut. Juglans cinerea. 



A row of these trees of large size formerly existed in 

 continuation of the oaks along the bank of the brook to the 

 rear of Mr. McGrill's property of Burnside. They were 

 probably along the line of an old fence or farm road. Five 

 or six of these trees existed in 1855, and were 

 regularly visited every autumn by troops of nutters from 

 the east end of the town. The best of the survivors 

 occupies a large space in my garden in Walbrae place, part 

 of which was purchased from the rear angle of the McGrill 

 property. The ruins of another stand in front of the 

 Medical Faculty's building and are at least picturesque. This 

 tree was partly buried by excavated material, but has sur- 

 vived this, though many of its branches were killed. 

 Another stands in front of the Thomas Workman Technical 

 building and may probably be spared. Several young trees 

 intended to renew the old ones have been destroyed except 

 one near the chemical laboratory of the Medical School. 



The butternut is a very beautiful tree and well deserving 

 cultivation, though it has the fault of leafing late in the 

 spring, and dropping its foliage early in autumn. It is 

 easily raised from the nut if planted in autumn, and grows 

 with rapidity. It is quite a common tree on the farms 

 northward and westward of Montreal. 



The butternut, owing to the food it affords and to the 

 shelter provided in the older trees by decayed spots, is a 

 favourite home of the red squirrel. A pair of these animals 

 has continued to maintain itself in the great tree near the 

 Workman building for thirty years, notwithstanding occa- 

 sional stoning by boys, and one individual at least still 

 holds its ground up to the present autumn. 



19. Hickory. Carya porcina. 



A few fine specimens of this beautiful and stately tree 



