OF WALNUTS, 25g 



Formerly Walnut-tree was much used for 

 building, and for household furniture ; but 

 Mahogany and other foreign timbers have now 

 in a great measure superseded it, especially in 

 the latter article. This timber will do very well 

 for uprights, but is rather too brittle for joists, 

 rafters, &c. and when properly polished, it looks 

 very well in chairs, tables, bureaus, kc. It is at 

 present, a good deal used for gunstocks. Walnuts 

 thrive best in a deep rich soil, but will do very 

 well in a chalky soil, as may be seen on the hills 

 in Surrey, in the neighbourhood of Leatherhead, 

 Godstone, and Carshalton ; and, at Beddington- 

 Park, the seat of the ancient family of the Carews, 

 there are many fine old Walnut-trees. These 

 trees are well w^orth cultivating ; as the yearly 

 value of the fruit that they bear is very consid- 

 erable. * There is a great deal of money made, 

 ,in plentiful years, by thinning of the nuts for 

 pickling, both for home consumption, and also 

 for exportation. The leaves of Walnuts steeped 

 in boiHng water, and that infusion mixed with 

 lime-water, soap-suds, and urine, is found very 

 efficacious for destroying slugs and worms in the 

 ground, and insects on trees. 



* At Beddington, about 50 Walnut-trees (and not above 

 half of that number full bearers) have been let at 301. 401. and 

 501. according to the crop ; and it is supposed, that in a good 

 season the renter clears 501. by the bargain. 



Beddington was noted in Queen Elizabeth's time for the 

 finest Orangery in England. 



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