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walnuts, for sale at our shops and stands, is more or 

 less rough or irregular on the outside. The husk 

 which covers the nut dries and breaks away when 

 ripe, and does not show any lines, as does the husk 

 of the hickories, along which to crack open at maturity. 



Our hickory nuts are smooth and mostly angular, 

 and the husks split from the top, along distinct lines, 

 nearly or quite to their place of attachment, as the 

 nuts ripen. In the walnuts, the smaller branches, 

 when cut open lengthwise, show a pithy interior with 

 little papery partitions, while the young branches of 

 the hickories are quite solid and woody to the centre. 



Of the walnuts, the butternut (Juglans cinerea) is 

 a native of this region. There is a fine tree at the 

 rear of the Pickering mansion on Broad street, rather 

 more than seven feet in circumference, and one at 

 the back of the Nichols estate on Federal street, six 

 feet in circumference at five feet from the ground. 

 There is another on Milk street near Pickraan, one 

 in the yard of No. 22 Pleasant street, and one over- 

 hanging the yard at the western side of the Silsbee 

 house, No. 380 Essex street, from the Stearns estate. 



The black walnut (Juglans nigra) is now, unfortu- 

 nately, represented in Salem only by comparatively 

 small trees, There is one at No. 13 Norman street, 

 several young trees at the rear of the Brookhouse 

 lot on Lynde street, and a tree in the yard of No. 9 1-2 

 Creek street. 



The largest black walnut in this vicinity is on the 

 grounds of Mr. F. W. Chever in Saugus. It is near 

 the street, a few rods north of the soldiers' monument. 

 The tree, which is in an excellent state of preservation, 

 has a trunk circumference of thirteen feet at five 



