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neighborhood of our fine maples, ashes, and other trees 
remarkable for their autumnal coloring, the effect, in a 
warm, dry autumn, is almost magical. Whoever has 
travelled through what are called the pine barrens of New 
Jersey in such a season, must have been struck with the 
gay tints of the numberless forest trees, which line the 
roads through those sandy plains, and with the conspicuous 
beauty of the Sweet gum, or Liquidamber. 
The bark of this tree when full grown, or nearly so, is 
exceedingly rough and furrowed, like that of the oak. The 
wood is fine-grained, and takes a good polish in cabinet 
work ; though it is not so durable, nor so much esteemed 
for such purposes, as that of the Black walnut and some 
other native trees. The average height of full grown trees 
is about 35 or 40 feet. 
Liquidambar styracijlua is the only North American 
species. It grows most rapidly in moist or even wet situa- 
tions, though it will accommodate itself to a drier soil. 
The Walnut Tree. Juglans. 
Nat. Ord. Juglandacese. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Polyandria. 
The three trees which properly come under this head 
and belong to the genus Juglans, are the Black walnut, the 
European walnut, and the Butternut. 
The Black walnut is one of the largest trees of our native 
forests. In good soils it often attains a stature of 60 or 70 
feet, and a diameter of three or four feet in the trunk, with 
a corresponding amplitude of branches. The leaves, about 
a foot or eighteen inches in length, are composed of six or 
