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otherwife they may by a fudden guft of wind be all blown off and loft. Though few trees iti 
America are more prolific of feeds than thefe, yet the feeds of many of them are fo apt to 
prove abortive, that a large quantity collected from different trees will admit of a better chance 
for raifing a number of them: put them up in a box of fand, and ftow them in a dry place; 
for moifture in their paffage is apt to rot them. Sow them in pans in a hot bed, in which keep 
them till the winter is over: yet I have known them come up very well in a good virgin foil 
without art; it is beft therefore to try both ways with this feed, and all others from our 
northern colonies ; ; but thofe that come moft northward are beft for our climate. 
ig 7, Nux Fuglans nigra Virginienfis. 
The Black Walnut-tree. 
Thefe trees are rarely feen in the low and flat parts of the country, nor ever but on good 
land, and commonly near the fources of rivers: they grow to a vaft fize and in great plenty 
throughout the northern continent of America, particularly in the upper parts of Virginia and 
Carolina. The leaves are much narrower and fharper-pointed than thofe of our walnuts, and 
~ not fo fmooth; the nuts are globular, ufually twice as big as the European kind, and the inner 
fhell fo very thick and hard, that great force is required with a hammer to break it; the outer 
thell is very thick, and rough on the outfide: the kernels are very oily and rank-tafted, and 
notwithftanding they lofe much of their ranknefs when they have been laid by fome months, 
they are after all more agreeable to the palates of Indians than of Europeans. The great 
quantity of oil thefe nuts yield makes them highly efteemed amongft the Indians for their ufe- 
~ fullnefs in cookery. Thefe, as well as all other nuts and acorns, require to be put into the 
ground in a fhorter time after their being gathered, than moft other feeds; fo that the quicker 
their paffage, the more likely is their chance for growing. ° 
18. Nux Fuglans alba. 
The White Walnut-tree. 
: “This t tree i is ciace fmaller than the black walnut, nor is it fo tall or fo ftraight in its ack. 
the leaves are alfo of a paler green, and generally longer than thofe of the black walnut-tree. - 
The bark i is white ; “the wood white, foft, coarfe-grained, and not durable: the nut is fome- 
| what oval and very long ; ; and fome time after it is gathered has many parallel, rugged furrows 
‘unnir from end to end. They will fometimes lay two years in the ground before they {prout; 
they are. rank-talted, and food only for {quirrels and other wild animals. 
