THE CREATION OF NEW TREES 
growth would be considered an impossibility 
without the evidence of a man’s own eyes. 
The new wood is as hard as the old-fash- 
ioned black walnut, somewhat harder when 
fully seasoned. 
It has a finer grain than the old walnut and 
takes a higher polish. 
It is nearer the mahogany grades than any 
other walnut and remarkably like some of 
the tropic mahoganies. 
Its possibilities when quartered or when 
sawn for other novel effects in veneers, are 
large. 
The width of the annual growth makes it 
peculiarly suitable when sawn in long strips 
for wainscoting and like effects. 
While the fiber of the wood is hard, it is 
fine for working as well as for polishing. 
Nearly every man spoke of the possibilities 
of this new tree in rapidly re-foresting the 
earth, as well as of the fact that it would give 
a marked impetus to the use of hard wood 
for fuel, while marking what might be called 
a new era in manufacturing. 
The trees of these two varieties which Mr. 
Burbank has produced have been given no 
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