Hell tatVest of lltitg detracts nothing from its othgr valuable ptopBrties i fof 

 If the round green nuts are detected through the dense foliage, they add to 

 tather than detract from the whole pleasing effect. 



In the manufacture of implements of use it enters more largely than .per- 

 haps any other tree, especially where hardness, elasticity and strength are 

 required! A volume might be filled with merely the names of the articles 

 Which are wholly or in part made of hickory wood. To the Ameripan, ac-- 

 customed as he is to the use of this valuable wood, it seems that no other 

 can be substituted for it, which will combine so many advantages^ 



But wB need not stop with a bare considHration of the hickory as a timber 

 tree. The nuts of this and the other juglaus tribe possess a virtue which has 

 been allowed by Americans to pass without notice. All are aware with .what 

 eagerness the sweet kernel of the hickory) the butternut and black walnut) 

 are sought for by men and the nut eating animals ; yet few have thought of 

 the amount and quality of the oil Which may be produced from these nutsi 

 Walnut oil has never been expressed in America, but in Europe the nut of 

 the Juglane regia has been used for that purpose for some years past) and it 

 holds a rank with the oil of almonds, and poppy seed as a salad oil, and is 

 touch above the oil of olives for the table. 



G. P. Marsh {Man and Naiurie) says " the walnut yields one-third the oil 

 produced in France, and in this respect occupies an intermediate position 

 between the olive of the south and the oleagenous seeds of the north. Two 

 and a half acres w 11 produce nuts of 500f value ($94). It is stated by Cosino 

 Bidolfi, that "France obtains three times as much oil from the walnut as from 

 the olivC) and nearly as much as from all the oleagenous seeds together ; and 

 twelve trees to the acre is equal to a capital of lOOOf." 



The writer in the New American Encyclopedia states that the oil expressed 

 from the walnuts-, is in general use as an article of diet in those districts in 

 which the tree abounds. And serves a still mofe important purpose in the 

 preparation of fine eolors. It is preferred on account of the conlplete and 

 tapid manner in whieh it dries, and the facility of obtaining it perffectlylim= 

 pid by diffusing it upon water in large shallow vases. In copper plate print' 

 ing at Paris it is Considered indispensibly necessary for a fine impression, 

 either in black or colors. It is also used in mixing paintSj which it does 

 touch better than linseed oil. 



The smooth shelled hickory nuts could be ground as Well as the nut of the 

 juglam regia t and the bitter nut of the ca^^a amara, which is about as rich 

 in oil as any of the hickory nuts, might well be employed in the manufacture 

 of table oil. The shell of this nut is very thin, probably fully equal to the 

 foreign walnut. The bitter principle is found exclusively in the inner inte- 

 gument which surrounds the kernel, separating all its parts. This bitter prin- 

 ciple is not soluble in the oil of the nut, and Will not therefore be communi- 

 cated to the oil. None of the northern hickories beat more nuts, or nuta in 

 Which the kernel bears a larger proportion to the weight of the nut. Borne 



