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hickory are applicable to these trees. Two inches is 

 deep enough to bury the seed. The butternut grows 

 rapidly, and at last attains a height of fifty feet. If sown 

 iu beds, it must be transplanted very young, as the tap- 



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root would be broken off the tree were it allowed to 

 stand too long without removal. It would be better to 

 cut the tap-root in the bed, and to treat the plant as 

 recommended for the hickory. The black- wal- 

 nut grows to a height of ninety feet, and 

 furnishes the costly wood so highly esteem- 

 ed by cabinet-makers. The butternut, less 

 56.-B«:ch-mast. yaluable than the black- vi'^alnut on account of 

 the inferiority of its colour, is used for the same purpose. 

 The cultivation of the walnuts is, in general, precisely 

 the same as that recommended for the oak and hickory, 

 to which my readers may refer. Cut No. 60, p. "IS, de- 

 picts the butternut, and No. 61, p. Y9, its leaf and seed ; 

 No. 62, p. 80, represents the black-walnut, and No. 63, 

 p. 81, its leaf and nut. 



