THE WALNUT. 



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sprinjj. In many parts of this country it thrives well 

 as a tree, and wherever it thrives it is vahiable. 



As is the case with all trees and plants that have 

 been lonjij known, esteemed, and cultivated by man, 

 the oriicinal coiuitry ot" the walnut is not recorded. 

 Some are of o])inion that it is the "Persian nut" 

 mentioned by Theojjhrastus ; and that, therefore, 

 Persia is the country from which it was first intro- 



TValnut — Jvglans regia. 



duced into Europe. It is found indigenous in the 

 more northern parts of that country, toward the moun- 

 tains of Caucasus ; sometimes, thou2;h more rarely,, 

 in the Russian territory on the north of those moun- 

 tains ; and in China. In all these situations, it 

 grows, according to the best authorities, in a state of 

 nature, and continues itself without cultivation. In 

 the east of France, the south of Germany, and Swit- 

 zerland, it is very abundant, more especially in Ger- 

 many ; in many parts of which, such as the plains of 

 the Bergstrdsse, which run parallel to the Rhine, be- 



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