In my boyhood days butternut syrup and sugar were considered as "sticky jokes" of the sugar camp.
The flavor of the butternut is far more delicate, and better, than any of the Persian species, but the difficulty in extracting the rather small kernel is a serious objection.
Probably the most direct and surest way to secure improved varieties is by hybridizing, taking the butternut for the female parent, and the Persian walnut for the male.
First Heartnut Grafts+ Mr. Jones tried the butternut and there is still one tree in the experimental planting east of the residence.
Butternut and Japanese walnut trees are, in general, more severely affected by the disease than the black walnut and many seem to be killed by it, although the killing process is slow.
We also have a few seedlings of Turkish tree hazel obtained from nuts sent to us by one of our friends in the state of Washington and a few butternut seedlings grown from nuts of a tree on the college campus.
This shows that the Woodall black walnut grows fairly well on butternut stock.
She was more than usually tired, for they had spent the day at Butternut Lodge.
He was just as greedy as he was ugly, and he ate leaf after leaf of the butternut tree, and grew so fat that he burst his skin.
And through the soft sweet night she flew, as she was told, straight to the butternut grove.
You must never fail to watch under the butternut tree on mid-summer nights, for it is quite possible that you may see the wedding dance of the Luna Greenie and her sisters with the long-trained robes.
There were no male flowers on that butternut tree that year.
I found that while other butternut trees bore nuts in clusters of one to three, this butternut tree was bearing them in clusters of ten and eleven.
The soil was very springy and wet and thebutternut just loves that soil.
There is quite a long bottom by the creek where the butternutgrows profusely.
On any of these walnut stocks the black walnut and the butternut (J.
At St. Geneva I came across a butternut that was growing in a soil that would kill a chestnut very quickly.
Killen and Rosa, and Miss Lea, but though this and some pollen of black, butternut and the Japanese was used no pollenation was successful.
This slide shows the nativebutternut in the forests of southern Indiana near the Ohio River.
The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets.
I was relieved from the embarrassment of denying the impeachment by reason of being introduced to the other notables, to Citizen Captain Sullivan, who wore an undress uniform consisting of a cotton butternut hunting shirt.
A tremor shook the woman's shoulders, and little Tom stood before her, a quaint figure in a butternut smock, his blue eyes questioning.
We have a butternut that some people call the English walnut and some the white walnut.
The trees are quite hardy but other butternut seedlings from Ontario seemed to lack hardiness.
He wrote that "They all run together and are evidently all from the butternut family.
Butternut trees are common in Michigan andbutternut pollen may have been responsible for these crosses but circumstantially the evidence pointed much more strongly to Japanese × Persian crosses than to Japanese × butternut crosses.
An interesting bit of information on the hardiness of the black walnut and butternut has just come to hand from Col.
The chances of a Japanese x butternut cross would have been so remote as to be altogether improbable.
Nuts of this identical type are common in the orient where the butternut does not occur and also they sometimes occur in this country on trees grown from imported Japanese walnut seed.
These accessions to our knowledge of the hardiness of the walnut and butternut are valuable and would suggest that these species can be grown much farther north than their native range.
The American butternut does not occur in that part of Maryland which is on the upper end of the Chesapeake Peninsula, probably 10 miles from Chesapeake Bay.
No data are at hand to show where the French butternut trees came from, but inasmuch as the butternut is not a native of France it is almost certain that the trees came from North America and probably Quebec Province.
Japanese walnut and American butternut under the technical name of Juglans bixbyi after the late Willard G.
When he had taken his position, his fadedbutternut clothing matched the earth as inconspicuously as a quail matches dead leaves, and he settled himself to wait.
There was a powder- burned hole in the butternut shirt, and only a slender thread of blood trickled into the dirt-grimed cracks between the planks.
Behind this there were other human forms, also lying prone, but clad in gray or butternut instead of blue.
It was a butternut jeans jacket, which had been taken off a dead Confederate at Ft.
Those were not days of abundant passenger travel in the South, except for those who wore the butternut uniform and carried muskets, but this train was well filled, and at Marietta a score of men in civilian dress had boarded the cars.
They were clad in the butternut gray and the slouch hats of the Confederacy, but their ordinary attire was the blue uniform of the Union army.
Through the illusions of depression and distance the "sink" of Butternut Creek seemed only an incrustation of blackish moss on the dull gray plain.
He would look out through the thick Hemlock tops, the blots of Basswood green or the criss-cross Butternut leafage and say: "My own, my own.
With a lead pencil borrowed from Yan he spread a hue of mortification all around it, a green butternut rind added the unpleasant yellowish-brown of human decomposition, and the result was a frightful looking plague spot.
There, where the butternut tree stood, had been the garden!
The butternut tree, the leaves of which resemble those of the ash, is also used as an ornamental tree.
Butternut husks and bark yield also a drug of cathartic properties.
The modern khaki resembles in color the "butternut jeans," in which backwoods regiments of the Civil War were clad.
Because it is low and rather wayward in growth, late to leaf out in spring, and early to shed its leaves in summer, the butternut is not a good street tree.
In eastern woods the butternut is known by its long, pointed nuts, with deeply and raggedly sculptured shells, in fuzzy, clammy, sticky husks that stain the hands of him who attempts to get at the oily meat before the husks are dry.
And this is how we did it: We first felled a thrifty butternut tree ten inches in diameter, cut off three lengths at five feet each, and carried them to camp.
We selected butternut for backlogs, because, when green, it burns very slowly and lasts a long time.
Stolid groups of mountaineers, clad in butternut and jeans, eyed us with mild curiosity.
Then we would come upon a rude habitation of logs and pause to pass greetings with a gaunt man in butternut brown, and would catch a glimpse of tow-headed children and slatternly women.
Despite the cold, a gap of sockless, dust-covered ankle showed between his rough brogan uppers and the wrinkled legs of his butternut breeches.
On the way I kept up a cheerful conversation, and on several occasions I had my butternut friends convulsed with laughter.
It was a moment of fearful suspense as we watched those Federal soldiers; but my butternut companions were too deeply interested in the watch to observe any feelings that my actions might have betrayed.
I determined, if a dash was attempted, to do what execution I could upon my butternut companions with my revolver, hoping to dispose of four or five of them before my true relation was discovered.
That day was an awful one, and hundreds went down before the desperate fire of the butternut boys, but we drove them back into their entrenchments.
You see a gray wig and a butternut suit make quite a farmer outen me.
A little butternut tree located near the house was the object of my efforts for over two years.
Results shown here with the butternut are deemed reasonably satisfactory, in view of the well known difficulty of grafting this species.
In fact two black walnut grafts on this little butternut were two of the very few that I got to grow at all last year.
It had been strangled or smothered, and buried deep in the snow, by the rocks under the butternut tree, half way to Mr. Thrasher's.
Katharine had, from the first, expected his departure--its necessity had been urged upon her on their first meeting under the butternut tree.
She knew of a nice cool place under the great butternut where it could have a beautiful blanket of snow, with light icicles shimmering over it from the branches.
I can't go this road," she gasped, pointing to the butternut tree, which flung its gaunt skeleton shadow far out on the snow.
She clambered the stone wall twice, into the orchard, and across another lot, until she reached the rock beneath the butternut branches, now without a leaf.
They were fast approaching the old butternut tree, when Katharine, whose breath had come quick and short with each step, reeled and fell back against the wall.
From the butternut tree they got a first sight of the old homestead.
After this there was little trouble--broken places in the snow crust led them on till they stood by the rock under the butternut tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "butternut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; nut; oak; tree
