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 thirty-one years, about twice 

 as long as the ones on Mr. Burbank's side of 



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