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it does also in Oregon, the stature of thirty up to 

 a hundred feet, In England the great merits of this 

 beautiful tree are only beginning to be realized. Time 

 will show what it may become as regards chestnuts. 



THE WALNUT (Juglans regia). 



THE Walnut-tree, like the chestnut, is a forest-patrician, 

 supplying not only an admirable fruit, but presenting in 

 mien and figure the highest type of beauty, grandeur 

 without ostentation, simplicity without defect, grace and 

 truthfulness intermarried. In the landscape the walnut 

 is always a tree of mark. In substance and in crown it 

 is a fit associate of oaks and elms. While the foliage is 

 young it supplies, in the peculiar warmth of its hue, a 

 delightful foil to that of other trees. The great pinnate 

 leaves, formed of five to nine ovate leaflets, are so 

 smooth and glossy as to be washed clean by every shower. 

 They abound in an aromatic secretion which renders 

 them proof against the attacks of insects ; when slightly 

 rubbed they evolve a rich balsamic odour the quality, 

 so excellent wherever found, which probably recom- 

 mended the walnut to King Solomon, so distinguished 

 alike for his magnificence, his enterprise as a horticulturist, 

 and his love of perfumes. " I made me," says the old 

 monarch, " gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in 

 them of all kinds of fruit" (Eccles. ii. 5). The "garden 



