The Walnut 



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 Srom ftno&n effecfs can frace tfye secret cause." 



ALNUT Juglans name from J o v i s 

 glans The nut of Jove or Jupiter. Be- 

 cause of its value to the people of that 

 early age it was called "The food of 

 the gods." 



Whether the different varieties found 

 in various lands had a common origin 

 we do not know. Trees centuries old 

 grew in America, before the days of 

 Columbus. The testimony from glacial drift in 

 Ohio, Indiana and Illinois gives indisputable evi- 

 dence, that forests containing red-cedar, beech, syca- 

 more, hickory and the walnut grew thruout this 

 vast section and were buried during the "Age of 

 Ice." So, thruout the great Mississippi Valley, the 

 walnut grew thousands of years before the pyramids 

 rose on the banks of the Nile, or the mythical deity 

 for whom it was named Jove Jupiter had his 

 origin in the fables of men. Doubtless all kinds 



