This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
We noted recently that location had much to do with quality in the same species of timber tree. A correspondent of the London Garden writes of an English-grown American black walnut: "You will note that the wood has obtained from our English soil the very character American wood is so deficient in, viz., hardness and weight, approaching in this respect the character of Italian walnut, or what is represented by the words good quality. I am now making from this tree a sideboard which will, I think, be a beautiful specimen of work."
 
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