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4648. I ox fo r c in g the s traw b e r r y , see §3294. to §3307.
S e c t . IV. NuU,
4649 Among nuU tlie most aseful in this country is the walnut, hoth for tho dessert
and piclding ; the filbert is also a Tciy useful fruit ; chestnuts are wholesome and nutri-
tive, and form, lu bpam and Italy, au important article of Iminan food.
SimsEOT E Walnut — 3igU-m regia L. (Lam. ill. 781.); Monce'c. Fohjin. L. and
n / S p in i Walnoot, Dutch ; Akci, Ital. ; and
4650. The walnut is a native of Persia and the south side of Caucasus ; but it is supposed
to have been introduced here from France, and called gaul-nut before 156« The
kernel, when npc, is in esteem at the dessert; and the fruit whole, in a green state
before the stone hai-deiis, is much used for pickling. An oil which supplies the place of
ami ?Lo “ "f«’ “ n » t o f 7 P^to-s. is expressed from the kernel in France
aud Savoy. (Sas Bakewell s Tarentaise, J-c.) In Spain they strew the gratings of old
and h,ud iiuts, first peeled, mto their tarts and other meats. The leaves strewed on the
ground, and left there, annoy worms ; or, macerated in warm wator, afford aliquor which
from Its bittorneas may effect thcir death. The unripe fruit is used iu medicine for th!
same purpose. Plniy says “ tho more walnuts ono cats, with the more ease will ho drive
woims out of his stomach.” The timber is used in this country for gun-stocks, being
lighter 111 proportion to its strength and elasticity than any other. It was formerly almost
oxc nsively used m cabinet-work in some parts of the Continent. The young timber is
hold to make the flncst-colourod work, hut the old to be more beautifully variegated.
4C51. Varieties. Those commonly cultivated for their fruit are —
S f e s f e S i to I s s s - ' t e 1 to iX iL i s s t a S to i iV )
4Gr>3 A:wgM after numerous trials, succeeded in propagating th e walnut tree by budding “ The
buds of trees,” heobserves, “ of almost every species, succeed with most certainty w?en ins ? tè d in th?
shoots of the same year’s growth ; but the walnut tree appears to afford an exception Sos/fbk V ? om ?
measure, because its buds contain within themselves, in the spring, all tiie le /ra ? which t S ^ ^ b ^ Z iu
he followmg summer : whence its annual shoots wholly cease to elongate 500^ « « / ? Us bud^mifold aU
Its buds pt each season ave also, consequently, very nearly of the same age : and long before anv have
acquired the proper degree of maturity for being ramovid, the annual branches hav®c c/ascd fo <^^r/w
longer, or to produce new foliage. To obviate th e disadvantages arising from the m e S i S c i Y m
mréhré 4 retarding the period of the vegetation of the stocks, comparatively with that
ol the bearing tre e ; and by these means I became partially .successful. There are a t the b /re of the
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