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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