ILLUSTRATED GUmF. 



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pound, ripens in autumn, and may be preserved in damp 

 sand till spring. It should be sown in its permanent loca- 

 tion, as its transplantation rarely succeeds. Of quick 

 grow^th, its height at maturity is sixty feet. The wood 

 of the chestnut is hard and durable, but coarse and r)or- 



-Carya glabra — Nut cf 

 pignut. 



51.— Garya tomentosa — Nut of 

 -white- heart hickory. 



ous. One of its chief advantages is that after cutting it 

 shoots freely from the stump. G-ood posts for fencing, and 

 fair firewood, though full of sparks, are yielded by the 

 chestnut. (1) Engraving No. 52 represents the chestnut 

 and Nc. 5?, p. "74, its leaves and seed. 



Fagus Si/lvatica — Beech. 



Hating sands, this well known tree finds a pleasant 

 abode in hilly, gravelly soils, where 

 there is little depth of earth. The 

 mast, which ripens, as all the world 

 knows, in autumn, must be sown at 

 once, as it soon loses its power of 

 germination. It should be but slight- 

 ly covered, and will be found up in 



the spring. A pound of mast con- 52.-Castanea vesca-Chestnyt 



tains fifteen hundred pickles. As it is by no means 

 easy to raise the beech from seed, perhaps it would 

 be wiser to take the young plants which spring in 

 the underwood, and set them out in a nursery. The 



(1) And splendiil hop-poles.— Tl'j. 



