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tainly is poor policy to incur the expense of importing an article which may 

 be grown just as well where it is consumed as at the place of exportation. 

 Tiie wood is as heavy and firm as the black walnut, though lighter colored, 

 and exceedingly useful to the cabinet maker. In every view it is well worthy 

 a trial to prove whether it will succeed. 



This tree was originally a native of Persia and the east ; but was known to 

 and cultivated by the Greeks and Romans, by whom 'it was much valued for 

 its wood, as well as for its nut. There is no record of its introduction into 

 Britain ; but it must have been done at an early day after the Roman con- 

 quest. In many parts of Spain, France, Italy and Germany, the nut forms a 

 great article of food to the people. In all these countries the walnut-tree is 

 extensively cultivated; the district of Bergstrasse, between Heidelberg and 

 Darmstadt, is almost entirely planted with them, and in some places, accord- 

 ing to Evelyn, in his days, " no young farmer is permitted to marry his wife 

 until he brings proof that he is father of a stated number of walnut-trees." 



All the juglang may be worked on each other by grafting and budding, so 

 that choice varieties of fruit may be propagated, with ease. 



CARTA. {Sickory.) 



These trees are a sub-order of the juglandacese — tree tall pyramidial — ster- 

 ile flowers in slender lateral catkins, mostly in threes on a common pedun- 

 cle — fertile flowers two or three together at the end of the branches— fruit 

 globular, with a somewhat fleshy, and at length leathery epicarp or husk, 

 which splits into four valves.and falls away from the smooth and slightly 4 to 

 6 angled, incompletely 4 celled endocarp or nut shell — leaves odd-pinnate, 5 

 to 13 leaflets, three terminals larger than the other pairs. The two kinds of 

 flowers proceed from the same scaly buds as the leaves ; the catkins are 

 borne below the leaves — pith continuous. All the varities flower at the same 

 time in May. 



The hickory, exclusively American, is a well known tree, found in almost 

 all parts of the United States, and possessess very many valuable properties. 

 Its wood has no equal for fuel, and is the standard with which all other fuel 

 is compared ; though there is some disparity among the wood of different 

 trees and species ; the white and thrifty wood being ten per cent, better 

 than the more porous red-hearted. In its several species it is found in almost 

 all kinds of soil, high or low, wet or dry. Sandstone regions have their 

 hickories as well as limestone, but seldom of the same species; all are more 

 or less valuable ; and even trees of the same species are so various as at 

 times to induce the opinion that they are of different varieties or species. 



The tree increases about as fast as the oaks and sugar maples, when in 

 suitable soil, and properly cultivated. Hickory hoop-poles are always in de- 

 mand, and command a large price. For that use there is but little difference 

 in the species. Plantations for that purpose alone would be very valuable, aa 

 will be seen by any one who will make the calculation. An acre of land 10 

 by 16 rods or 165 by 264 feet, maybe planted 66 rows four feet apart, and 165 

 trees at one foot apart in the row making 10,890 trees on the acre. At six 

 years from the seed, these trees, if properly cultivated and trimmed, would 



