

THE WALNUT. 



JUGLANS REGIA. PL 12. 



Fruftijication. Barren flowers in an ob-_ 

 long catkin, each flower having many 

 chives. Fertile flowers upon the fame 

 tree, growing by twos or threes, each 

 fucceeded by a large round flefhy 

 capfule containing one nut. 



Specific charafler. Leaves fmall, oval, 

 fmooth, equal, fet in pairs, with an 

 odd one at the end. 



THE walnut, though not a native of our 

 woods, is in many parts planted fo freely, 

 and fo well perfcdts its fruit and timber, 

 that it may be confidered as fairly natu- 

 ralized among us. It loves a rich loamy 

 foil, but will grow well on ftony ground, 

 if the ftaple be chalk : hence it is found to 

 thrive on the chalky downs of Surrey, 



where 



