THE CREATION OF NEW TREES 
street, where they would receive no cultivation 
and no irrigation in days of drought. They 
were left to shift for themselves. Fourteen 
years passed and, in 1905, the trees had be- 
come nearly eighty feet in height, their branch- 
spread was fully seventy-five feet, their trunks 
were fully two feet in diameter at the height 
of a man’s head, and not much less than that 
at the point of the first branch, some twelve 
to fifteen feet above the ground. The wood 
is of fine grain, hard, very compact, having a 
lustrous, silky effect and taking a high polish. 
Sometimes the annual growth will be an inch 
or more, the successive layers giving to the 
sawn timber interesting and novel effects. 
The wood is suitable for furniture manufac- 
ture, for inside furnishings of houses, or for 
any place where open ornamental woodwork 
treatment is employed. For fuel the wood 
gives a steady, strong heat, combining com- 
parative ease in cutting with the hardness 
essential for good burning. 
Just across the street from Mr. Burbank’s 
home stands another row of walnut trees. 
They have been growing a little over twice as 
long as the ones on Mr. Burbank’s side of the 
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