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> Any experience planting black walnut?
> 

Lots of black walnut here.  Here's something I just made in my shop from 
black walnut:

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If you plant black walnut in open ground,  it will branch not very far from 
the ground making it less than perfect furniture or veneer wood.  If you 
interplant one for one with ash trees, it forces the walnut to grow a long 
straight 
trunk before branching and gives a much more valuable log ...... in fifty to 
seventy years.

James