160 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Jnglans nigra, Linne.* 



Black Walnut Tree. Attains a height of 70 feet; trunk 4 

 feet in diameter ; found in rich forest land in North America. 

 Wood most ornamental, purplish hrown, turning dark with 

 age, strong, tough, not liahle to warp nor to split ; not attacked 

 by insects. Supplies three-fourths of the material for hard- 

 wood furniture in the United States (Sargent) and fetches 

 there the highest price. Wood stored for many years is the 

 best for gun-stocks. For the sake of its compactness, dura- 

 bility, and its susceptibility to high polish, it is much sought 

 for elegant furniture, stair-rails, and other select purposes. 

 Seeds more oily than the European walnut. The tree extends 

 in a slightly altered variety to Bolivia and Argentina. 



Juglans regia, Linne.* 



The ordinary Walnut Tree of Europe, but of Central Asiatic 

 origin. It attains a height of fully 80 feet, and lives many 

 centuries. Wood light and tough, much sought for gun- 

 stocks, the choicest furniture, and other things. The shells of 

 the nut yield a black pigment. Trees of select quality of wood 

 have been sold for £600, the wood being the most valuable of 

 Middle Europe. In some departments of France a rather 

 large quantity of oil is pressed from the nuts, which, besides 

 serving as an article of diet, is used for the preparation of 

 . fine colours. To obtain first-class fruit, the trees are grafted 

 in France (Michaux). An almost huskless variety occurs in 

 the north of China. Can be grown in cold localities, as it 

 lives at 2,000 feet elevation in| Middle Europe. Nuts for 

 distant transmission, to arrive in a fit state for germination, 

 are best packed in casks between layers of dry moss. 



Juglans rupestris, Engelmann. 



From California to New Mexico, along the course of streams 

 in rich moist soil. A handsome symmetrical tree of utility, 

 attaining a height of 60 feet, 3 feet in diameter (Dr. Gibbons). 



Juglans Sieboldiana, Maximowicz. 



Throughout Japan, where it forms a large tree. 



Juglans stenocarpa, Maximowicz. 



From the Amoor territory. Allied to J. Mandschurica. 



Juniperus Bermudiana, Linn^.* 



The Pencil Cedar of Bermuda and Barbadoes. This species 



