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Tender-shelled Walnut* 

 Hard-shelled Walnut. 



The Walnut tree grows forty or fifty 

 feet high, branching out widely around, 

 garnifhed with large pinnated leaves, and 

 produces the flowers and fruit near the ends 

 of the former and fame year's moots, to- 

 wards the extreme parts of the branches, 

 growing generally in cluflers ; the flow- 

 ers appear in April and May, fucceeded 

 by the fruit in June and July, gradually 

 encreafing in growth till September, when 

 the W T alnuts begin to ripen ; and when 

 arrived to full perfection, the green outer 

 cover divides and difcharges the nut, 

 containing the eatable kernel. 



As we above hinted, the fruit of the 



Walnut tree is ufeful in two different 



Rages of growth, viz. 



When 



