niture, and for picture frames, and for finishing the inside of houses. 

 Indeed, the wood was so much sought after that now scarcely any large- 

 walnut trees are left in the State, except in small groves about houses. 

 The walnut trees in the woods are nearly all what is called "second 

 growth,"' and the wood is not nearly so valuable, because it has not had 

 time to develop the dark, rich color which makes walnut wood so 

 handsome. If people who owned farms had cared for their walnut 

 trees many of these large forms would have been still left, and their 

 owners would be very much wealthier. But we are just as foolish 

 about the trees that are left and are every day making ourselves and 

 the State poorer by uselessly destroying them. Beside the ordinary 

 walnut we have what is known as the white walnut, or butternut. 

 AVhile this tree is not so large as the other, it is a very valuable tree,, 

 and should be carefully protected. It looks so much like the other 

 walnut that j'ou can easily recognize it in the woods. Tou see, how- 

 ever, as you look at the bark that it is not nearly so rough and thick 

 and that it is gray in color, instead of dark. Sometimes the gray color 

 seems to run in a series of bands straight up the tree. Pick one of the 

 compoimd leaves and count the number of leaflets. Are they arranged 

 in the same way as in the other walnut? "When do the leaves and 

 flowers appear? But you know the list of questions I want you to 

 answer, so I will not write them out. 



From the walnuts you can easily find the hickory-nut trees, for 

 their leaves look so much alike. In all of our hickory trees the bark 

 is of a light gray color and in many cases seems to almost fall off the 

 tree in long, slender strips. If you try to pull off one of these strips 

 you will find it still very closely fastened to the tree. In one of our 

 hickories the whole trunk is made shaggy by these strips ol bark, and 

 we call the tree the "shagbark," or "shellbark," hickory. Pick the 

 compound leaf of a hickory tree and count the number of leaflets. 

 How are the leaflets arranged? Do hickory trees have flowers? If so,, 

 when do they appear? We have seven different kinds of hickory trees 

 in Indiana, all of them of large size and all giving us very valuable 

 timber. The wood is very hard and strong and this fits it for very 

 many uses, in which great strength is required. The handles of tools, 

 such as axes and plows, wagon-tongues and spokes, and a thousand 

 other things are made from hickory when it can be obtained. Every 

 boy knows he can make a good bow from a straight-grained piece of 

 hickory, and that which makes it good for a bow makes it suitable for 

 the other uses of which I have spoken. All of these trees bear nuts 

 which can be eaten, except in one case. The nut of the "pig-nut" hick- 



