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been slow, and though they frequently bear 

 fruit, being sixty years old, the walnuts, even 

 in the finest summer that I ever saw, never 

 grew large enough even for pickling. Some 

 were planted a few years earlier than these I 

 speak of, by the late Samuel Oldknow, Esq., 

 on the Cheshire side of the river, in Marple, 

 opposite to " Mellor Mill," and are still grow- 

 ing where he planted them, and they have 

 made greater progress than mine; still I 

 doubt if their fruit will ever reach maturity, 

 though the timber will every year, though 

 very slowly, increase in dimension. 



ALDEB. 



This timber is applicable to many of the 

 same purposes as the birch, and is too well 

 known for its quick growth and wide-spread- 

 ing increase in many of our localities, to re- 

 quire any particular notice in this place. 



