NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
ing, which for fuel would amount to at least 
four cords per tree— about $24,000 for the 
total farm, or a grand total for the 160 acres 
for lumber and fuel amounting to $485,000. 
These figures seem absolutely preposterous, 
but it must be borne in mind that the trees 
are now to be seen growing at the end of a 
fourteen-year period, and that every item has 
been carefully verified ;— hence the conclusion 
is legitimate, even if staggering. Naturally, 
should everybody go in for hybrid walnut 
raising, the price of this now rare lumber would 
be reduced, but, so valuable is it in so many 
ways,—for furniture, bank and office furnish- 
ings, dwelling interiors, for wainscoting and 
ceilings where costly woods are sought,—and 
so remarkable is it as a producer of wood for 
fuel, it is not at all likely that there would 
soon be a glut in the market. 
In conversation with a practical manufac- 
turer of lumber to whom this new work of 
Mr. Burbank was a revelation, he raised the 
point that, so far as his knowledge went, fast- 
growing trees were usually trees of soft grain 
which were not suitable for fine finishing. 
The strange fact is, however, that these new 
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