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BUTTERNUT. 
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America have spared it, in clearing their new lands. On high roads, I am 
of opinion that it might be chosen to succeed the Elm ; for experience has 
proved, that to insure success in the continued cultivation of trees or herba- 
ceous plants on the same soil, the practice must be varied with species of 
different genera. 
Nuts of the European Walnut and of the Black Walnut have been 
planted at the same time in the same soil : those of the Black Walnut are 
observed to shoot more vigorously, and to grow in a given time to a greater 
height. By grafting the European upon the American species at the height 
of 8 or ten feet, their advantages, with respect to the quality both of wood 
and of fruit, might be united. 
PLATE XXX. 
A leaf of half its natural size. Fig. 1, A nut ivith its hush. Fig. 2, A 
nut ivithout its hush. Fig. 3, A barren ament. 
BUTTERNUT. 
JuGLANs CATHARTICA. 'S . foUoUs subquinclenis, lanceolatis, basi rotundato-ob- 
tusis subius. tomentosis^ leviter serratis : fructu oblongo, ovato, apice mam- 
moso, viscido, longe pedunculato^ nuce oblongâ, acuminalâ, insigniter 
insculptè-scabrosû. 
This species of Walnut is known in North America, under different de- 
nominations. In Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, it bears 
the name of Oibnut : in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and on the banks of 
the Ohio, it is generally known by that of White Walnut; in Connecticut, 
New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and in the mountainous districts of the 
upper parts of the Carolinas, it is called Butternut. The last of these names 
I have retained, because it is not wholly unknown in those parts of the 
United States where the others are in general use, and because the wood is 
employed in the neighborhood of New York for a greater variety of uses 
than elsewhere. I think also that the latin specific name Cathartica, which 
was long since given it by Doctor Cutler of Massachusetts, should be de- 
