Butternuts.
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 account they were called “butternuts.”
THE CHESTNUT.
Chestnut flowers.
The chestnut is a very large and beautiful tree that grows abundantly in some parts of New England and over the Alleghany Mountains. Children always know the chestnut trees, if they live near them.