100 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
THE BUTTERNUT HICKORY. 
This member of the hickory family I cannot recom- 
mend, on account of its being liable to be attacked by a 
small black beetle, which bores through the inner bark 
and deposits its eggs, which usually number from twenty 
to thirty, in a cell about aninch long. The young, when 
they are hatched, bore in different directions, and thus 
girdle the tree, which soon dies. It is found with the 
black walnut, red elm, laurel oak, and bur oak. It was 
at one time very plentiful in the neighborhood of Prince- 
ton, New Jersey, but owing to the ravages of Scalytus 
Carye (the small black beetle above mentioned) it has 
become scarce, and continues to become more so every 
year. The wood in the old trees is soft, and the timber 
of the young trees is to be preferred for any purpose 
but fuel. It is found in the Western States on the rich 
bottom lands, and on the outskirts of prairies, where the 
land is deep and rich. 
