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I In- Walnut Familj 

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Hahit and Ha' itat: A medium-sized ti i high. sometimes 



tall a eet, ami a trunk diameter of inches, with a large, 



■ail spreading, horizontal and ascending branches, and stout branch- 

 lets, forming an open, wide-spreading, flatfish or roundish crown, r 

 fers rich, moist, lowland soils as along stream courses and fertile, wooded 



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LeaYCfl and Hud-: Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, L2 

 inches long; leaflets 11-17, oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 inches long, about 

 one-half as wide, finely serrate, thin, yellow-green and more or 1 



seurfx re, hairy beneath, turning yellow in autumn and falling 



tut, hairy. Terminal bud %-% inch long, somewhat 



tlattt-ned. hairy, brown; lateral buds smaller, ovate, rounded at the apex, 



in group- les inconspicuous. 



Flowers and Fruits: Flowers produced in May or early June with 

 the leaves; the staminate in cylindrical, green, dropping catkins, 

 inches long; calyx 6-lobed, produced in a hairy sea olla <>: stair- 



s -12, brown; the pistillate flowers solitary or several together in a cl< 

 cluster toward the tips of the twigs, greenish, sticky-hairy; calyx 

 4-lobed, hairy; corolla 0, stigmas red. Fruit ripening- in October, about 

 inches long, a cylindrical, pointed, greenish, sticky-hairy, aromatic 

 nut. solitary, or borne in drooping clusters of 3-5, becoming brown as 

 they dry out, inclosing a single rough, edible, seed, rather difficult to 

 :iove from the shell. 



Bark, Twigs and Wood: Bark light grayish-brown, deeply divided 

 into broad ridges which separate into small, plate-like scales on the 

 surface; twigs and young branches yellow-brown or green, rusty-hairy 

 becoming smooth and light gray; pith chocolate-brown, divided into 

 chambers by horizontal plates. Wood light, soft, weak, coarse-grained, 

 lily worked, light brown, with thin, lighter colored sapwood, surface 

 satiny, polishing beautifully, durable. 



Distribution in the State: The butternut is very common in the 

 forests of Arkansas and Missouri from which it has been carried into the 

 southeastern corner of Nebraska as far as Gage, Johnson, Otoe and 



Bfl counties, but it is not common or abundant in any portion of this 



I range in our state. Some have doubted if the species occurs 



naturally in the state at all, but such doubt can scarcely stand in the face 



of the fact that the tree has been reported from the above range by 



y competent authority. This tree has also been planted occasionally, 

 but not nearly so commonly as its near relative the black walnut. I do 

 not know of a single grove of butternut trees in this state. Map ! 



Resmarks: The butternut is sometimes used for ornamental plant- 

 ing in parks. 1 ut is not nearly so popular as the black walnut for such 

 purposes. The tree does not do so well as the black walnut in Nebraska 

 because it is more susceptible to injurs from drought. The wood of 

 this species is also used for furniture, interior finish and for cabinet 

 making, but it is inferior to that of its sister species. The cylindrical, 

 pointed nuts of the butternut constitute perhaps the most striking point 

 of ditf between this B] - and the black walnut. I will welcome 



f this tree from any part of the state. The English wal- 

 nut Vz, a native i I Minor. 



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