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" Uncle Philip, I remember that when you 

 began to tell us about the hickories and the but- 

 ternuts, you said that your talk to-day would 

 be about walnuts ; are walnuts and butternuts 

 the same ?" 



" They are all of the same species : I know 

 that when you say walnuts, you mean only 

 the large black walnuts, that people make 

 pickles of before they get ripe ; but walnut 

 is the general name of a species of tree of 

 which the black walnuts and butternuts, and 

 all the different sorts of hickory, are only 

 varieties." 



" Uncle Philip, I have heard people say that 

 hickory-nuts only grow in this country ; is 

 that true ?" 



" No, not exactly ; they will grow in Eu- 

 rope, but none have ever been found there 

 growin^ naturally ; they have all been raised 

 from nuts taken from this side of the At- 

 lantic." 



" It seems to me, Uncle Philip, that God 

 has been very good to this country ; there are 

 a great many very good things here that are 

 not to be found anywhere else." 



" God has been very good to us all, and 

 given us a great many blessings, if we did 



