OF WALNUTS. ^5^ 



purpose. Walnuts, unless a sharp frost sets in, 

 which is very seldom the case before they are 

 ripe, should be suffered to remain on the trees 

 till they begin to drop of themselves : shaking of 

 the tree will then bring them down. Beating 

 them down with poles, as is usually done, injures 

 the tree very much by breaking the young shoots ; 

 beside, the Nuts never keep well when they are 

 thrashed down too early. 



The Nuts may be sown in drills in the same 

 manner as Chesnuts : the best time for doing 

 this, if the season be dry, is Autumn ; and the 

 Nuts must be thoroughly dry, otherwise they 

 will be apt to rot before they vegetate. If the 

 Autumn be wet, they may be sown in the month 

 of February or the beginning of March, and 

 ought to be covered over as directed for Ches- 

 nuts, to preserve them from mice. If they 

 thrive well, they will be fit for transplanting the 

 first Autumn after sowing; but if not, they 

 should be suffered to remain another year. Bed 

 them out in the same manner as directed for 

 Chesnuts, transplanting every second or third 

 year, until they are planted out for good. This 

 will cause them to throw out fine horizontal roots, 

 and bring them into a bearing state much sooner 

 than when they make deep tap-roots. Train them 

 up with fine single stems to. about seven feet 

 high, before you suffer them to form heads j the 

 branches will then be out of the reach of cattle. 

 The time of transplanting them out depends on 



