420 The Book of Woodcraft 



White Walnut, Oil Nut or Butternut {Juglans cinerea) 



Much smaller than the last, rarely loo feet high; with 

 much smoother bark and larger, coarser, compound leaves, 

 of fewer leaflets but the petioles or leaflet stalks, and the 

 new twigs are covered with sticky down. 



The wood is Hght brown, soft, coarse, not strong but 

 very enduring in weather and ground work; hght; leaves 

 15 to 30 inches long; leaflets 11 to 19 in number and 3 to 5 

 inches long; fruit oblong 2 to 3 inches long. Nova Scotia 

 to Minn, and south to Miss. 



Pecan (Hicoria Pecan) 



A taU slender forest tree in low moist soil along streams, 

 up to 170 feet in height: famous for its delicious nuts, they 

 are smooth and thin shelled; fruit, oblong, cyhndrical, 

 i| to 2I inches long. Its leaves are smooth when mature: 

 leaflets 11 to 15, and 4 to 7 laches long: Wood hard and 

 brittle, a cubic foot weighs 45 lbs. Central Mississippi 

 Valley. 



