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FIuglans nigra. NATURAL ORDER: Yuglandacee— Walnut Family. 
io EUS PATER (Father Zeus), through the first syllable of 
> the Latin equivalent Jupiter, enters into the formation of the 
botanical name of this valuable tree, Juglans meaning Jove’s 
acorn; and the walnut is certainly not unworthy of the dis- 
tinction. In growth it is a majestic forest tree, rising very 
AY ve vos frequently to the height of eighty feet, and is always a 
"Nig pleasing object to the eye. The wood of the Black Walnut is very 
~\fi2. extensively used in cabinet work and in building. It is very close 
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2’ srained and heavy, and when freshly sawed it is of a deep violet 
©” color. It takes a very good polish, and assumes a brownish tone 
after being dressed, and looks not incongruous either when uphol- 
stered in the richest of fabrics or placed amid the commonest sur- 
roundings. The nuts are of a rather flattened globose shape, and 
the removal of the outward husk exposes the inner shell, which is very rough 
on the surface. 
Autetfert, 
ORERUN thy peers, thy time, and let 
Thy feet, milleniums hence, be set 
In midst of knowledge dreamed not yet. 
—Tennyson. 
ETIR’D thoughts enjoy their own delights, HE mind of man is this world’s true dimension; 
As beauty doth in self-beholding eye; And knowledge is the measure of the mind: 
Man’s mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, And as the mind in her vast comprehension 
A brief wherein all miracles scumm’d lie, Contains more worlds than all the world can find, 
Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, So knowledge doth itself far more extend 
Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. Than all the minds of man can comprehend. 
— Southwell, —Lord Brooke. 
RISE, my drowsing soul! 
Gird on thy blazing arms of intellect! 
One struggle more to master coming time; 
And if thy earthly walls then fall consumed, 
We'll scale those heights where conquering time is not. 
—George H. Boker. 
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