90 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 
42. The Black Walnut and Butternut. Perhaps no 
two trees are so difficult for the city boy or girl to 
distinguish as the butternut and black walnut. Both 
have compound leaves, the number of leaflets varying 
from nine to seventeen for the butternut and from 
fifteen to twenty-three for the black walnut. A leaf 
having fifteen leaflets, then, might belong to either tree 
if there were no other way to distinguish them. The 
teeth on the black-walnut leaflet are larger and sharper 
than on the butternut, and the fuzzy stem is lacking. 
The green nuts, too, are different, the black walnuts 
being just about the size and shape of green lemons, 
the butternuts longer and thinner; but the unmistak- 
able feature is the odor. Having once smelled the 
crushed leaves of a butternut and a black walnut, a 
person will thereafter need no other test. 
The use of black-walnut lumber for making furniture 
was at one time very common. The great supply of 
this valuable wood has been exhausted and other woods 
have become fashionable. It is still used for gunstocks, 
for which purpose nothing seems better suited. 
Butternut is a light-colored wood, but takes a good 
polish and is occasionally used in cabinet work. 
43. The Locusts. The locust family 1s a large one; its 
members all bear compound leaves, and their fruit is in 
the form of beans instead of nuts. 
