The Walnut Tree. 



of the part of the tap which you left when you put the 

 plants in the nursery. These roots must be pruned in the 

 manner directed for those of the Ash, and the planting out 

 must take place with all the precautions so strongly recom- 

 mended in the removal of tap-rooted or evergreen trees. 



552. People do not make icoods of English Walnut 

 trees ; but, when I have described the uses of the Ameri- 

 can Walnut wood, the rapidity of the growth of the trees, 

 and the focility of obtaining the seed, I think it will want 

 little to convince an English planter, that wood of this sort 

 of tree, is a subject very well worthy of attention. Our 

 Walnut Tree seldom has a clear trunk of any considerable 

 length, and it is the same with the American Walnut^ 

 but, these trees throw out great limbs at about ten or 

 fifteen feet from the ground, and spread over a large piece 

 of ground. The American Walnuts are two in number; 

 one is called the Black Walnut {Juglans Nigra) ; and 

 the other the Butter-Nut {Juglans Cathartica). The seed 

 of the first comes in a large round green shell, which 

 contains a large round Walnut very deeply furrowed. 

 The Butter-Nut comes in a green shell, in the shape 

 of an egg, and about the size of a small common hen's 

 egg ; and it contains a Walnut of nearly the same shape, 

 but sharply pointed at the small end, and still more deeply 

 furrowed than the former. 



553. The Black Walnut is, however, the finest tree, 

 and is one of the finest trees in size, in height, in spread 

 ofhead, andin leaf both of quantity and shape, that there is 

 to be found in the world. Our English Walnut wood is 

 very brittle stuff, and serves for very few purposes, that of 

 making gun stocks being the principal. Some articles of 

 furniture were formerly made of it ; but it is never used 



