Chapter Htntlj. 



NUTS. 



" So rich a shade, so green a sod, 

 Our English fairies never trod ; 

 Yet who in Indian bower has stood, 

 But thought on England's ' good green wood ' ? 

 And bless'd, beneath the palmy shade, 

 Her hazel and her hawthorn glade ; 

 And breathed a prayer (how oft in vain !) 

 To gaze upon her oaks again ! " 



Bishop Heber. 



F all the terms applied to parts of plants having 

 their proximate origin in the flower, the most 

 comprehensive is NUT. Fruits, in the full 

 and perfect sense of the word, portions of 

 fruits, seeds, kernels, all take it in turn to be 

 called Nuts; and when the esculent kinds 

 have been counted, there are many more which are 

 "nuts " only with the botanist. Strictly speaking, nuts 



