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Diplacus pumiceus. 



Edwardsia graiidiHora and microphylla; 



Erythrina crysta-galli ; Eutaxia inyrti- 



folia. 

 Grcvillea rosmarinifolia. 

 Hibbcrtia volubilis. 

 Jiisininuni granditlorum, and umbella- 



tuin. 

 Keiinedya lilacina, longiracemosa, and 



ovata. 

 Lagerstra;mia indica; Linum trigyniura. 

 JMalva creeana ; Maneltia bicolor; Ma- 



" Tlie shoot to be grafted must be 

 cut above the place where a yoiiiig 

 shoot is pushing; this shoot must be 

 preserved, and the scion must be placed 

 opposite to it, being fitted in the man- 

 ner of whip-grafling, care being taken 

 that the inner barks coincide. When 

 the buds of the scion begin to swell, the 

 point of the shoot left opposite on tlie 

 stock must be pinched ; and when the 

 gralt has tully burst into leat', and is 

 consequently in a condition to appro- 



rianthus cjeruleo-punctatus ; Mimosa priate the whole of the sap, the shoot 



prostrata. 

 Olea fragrans. 

 Passillora alata, cxrulea, cajrulea race- 



mosa, and inayani ; Plumbago capen- 



sis ; Polygala cordifolia and grandi- 



flora; Punica granatum. 

 Rhodocliiton volubile. 



on the stock may be then dispensed 

 with. 



" The scions should be taken ofT in 

 March, and their ends laid in the ground 

 till required tor use, as above men- 

 tioned." — Gard. Chron. 



Soil. — It prefers a deep loam, though 



ISchinus niolle; Siphocampyllus bico- | it will succeed on all light moderately 

 lor ; Sollya heteropliylla and liniaris ; fertile soils, provided they are well 

 Swainsonia coronilla;folia. 



Tacsonia mollissima and pinnatistipula. 



drained. 



Flanlin^. — Walnut 



trees should 



W.VLNUT, EiVGLlSH. Julians regia. never be planted nearer to each other 

 Varieties. — Common Duck Nut ; Ha- , than sixty feet. They require no 

 tif; Higlitlyer; Double; Tardif; York- pruning. 



shire. Of these Highflyer and Yorkshire ) Preserving the Fruit. — It is ripe in 

 are best. — London Hart. Sac. Catalogue. October, and should be allowed to hang 

 Propagation by Seed. — Sow in drills upon the tree until the outer covering 

 twelve inches apart and two inches and begins to crack. In this state, when 

 a half deep, and the nuts six inches : the tree is shaken, many of the walnuts 

 apart. This may be done in October, 1 as they fall will roll out of the husk. 



or the nuts preserved in dry sand until 

 February. They will come up the same 

 spring, and, by the end of summer, the 

 young plants will be half a foot or more 

 high, which, after having two years' 

 growth in the seed-bed, plant out in the 



These should be gathered into a basket, 

 separate from those that retain their 

 covering ; the latter should be laid aside 

 for a few days, until the husks burst, 

 and they can be taken out with ease. 

 The great object is to prevent them 



nursery. Previously, when taken up, from becoming mouldy; they should, 



shorten their tap roots ; but preserve 

 their tops entire, and plant them in 

 rows two feet and a half asunder, and 

 about eighteen inches distant in each 

 row. Here thev are to remain a few 



therefore, be wiped clean and dry, and 

 laid on a shelf, in a dry place, where 

 they can have a free current of air, until 

 all tendency to mouldiness is overcome. 

 Great care must, however, be taken that 



years, training them with single stems, they are not over dried, for that will 

 till five or six teet high, then transplant cause shriveling. When sufficiently 



them where they are to remain. 



dry they should be put into boxes ia 



Those intended principally as timber ; layers, alternately with bran, fine dry 

 trees, as well as to bear fruit, should be \ sand, or shreds of cloth, and kept fi>r 



always planted out for good when from 

 four to live feet high ; or, if the nuts 



use in a cool dry situation. By this 

 means they will retain their moisture 



were planted at once where the trees and flavour, and the film will with ease 



are designed to remain, without trans- 

 planting, they would assume a quicker 

 and stronger growth. 



By Grafting. — Mr. Knight first suc- 

 ceeded in this operation, and the fol- 

 lowing directions accord with his 

 mode : — 



peel oir. — Gard. Cliron. 



Talcing the Fruit. — There is an un- 

 gallant distich which says — 

 '•A woman, spaniel, and walnut tree, 

 The limier are, ilie more well thrash'd they 

 be.-' 

 But in the third instance most certainly 



