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but know how to enjoy tliein properly. It is 

 true that we have some things in America 

 that other people have not ; and the people 

 of other countries have some things that we 

 have not : but then it is very easy to carry the 

 productions of different lands from one to an- 

 other ; and so we can have, not only what 

 grows here, but every thing good that is found 

 anywhere else." 



" And are there no butternuts either in Eu- 

 rope, or anywhere but in our country ?" 



" No ; there is but one kind of walnut that 

 grows anywhere else, and that is the common 

 European walnut, or, as we call it, the Eng- 

 lish walnut ; some call it Madeira-nut. You 

 have eaten some of them, I dare say." 



" Oh yes, Uncle Philip ; the shell is a great 

 deal thinner and softer than the shell of our 

 black walnut ; I can crack it with just my 

 fingers. And does not that walnut grow in 

 America ?" 



" Yes, it will grow : but it must be planted ; 

 and, indeed, it is not a native production of 

 Europe ; it was brought, in the first place, 

 from Asia, a very long time ago. There are 

 very few of the trees in this country as yet." 



"Is it better for any thing than our black 

 walnut ? better than the hickory ?" 



