The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . A. Pistillate flowers B. Pitch chambers Winter buds THE BUTTERNUT (Guglans Cinerce) S aminate flower A clammy down covers new shoots and leaf stalks. Aromatic sap and chambered pith characterise all walnuts. The winterbuds and leaf scars are peculiar. The flowers appear in May with the leaves. The staminate are in pendulous catkins;the pistillate in terminal racemes. The wood is brown with a satiny lustre.

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