WALNUTS AND BUTTERNUTS. 
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and, to a small extent, in this country. Its nut is 
larger than the black walnut, has a thin shell and a 
large, sweet kernel. The nut is delicious and a great 
favorite at Christmas time. It is sometimes picked 
green and pickled, and some people are very fond of 
pickled walnuts. 
The nut yields an abundance of valuable oil, and the 
wood of the tree is very beautiful and useful for many 
purposes, one of which is to finish houses on the inside, 
and another to make gunstocks. 
There is another tree belonging to the same family 
that grows in America and looks very much like the 
black walnut tree. It is the butternut. Butternut 
wood is valuable, and butternuts have sweet, oily ker- 
nels that most people like. The flowers, of course, are 
like those of the walnut. 
A brown dye is made from the inner bark of the 
butternut tree, and also a medicine is obtained from it. 
During the War of the Rebellion the Southern soldiers 
were often dressed in homespun clothes dyed by the 
bark of the ^ >^^- ^ 
butternut, 
and on this 
accounts 
they were y W P' jM^^k'T' W 
called * iw^" M 
" butternuts." «* Butternuts. 
