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parks, hedge-rows, and any out-premifTes : 

 and in which they are Jiifo very profitable in 

 their produdion of nuts for fale. The nuts 

 ripening in September and Odober, confilling 

 of the following varieties : 



Earlv oval Walnut I Large Walnut 

 Common ovalWalnut Large double Walnut 

 Round Walnut | Tender fheliedWalnut 



The trees of all the varieties are of large 

 lofty growth, with confiderable fpreading 

 branches, all hardy to grow in any common 

 foil and open fituution ; are always trained in 

 full ftandards, and generally require to be of 

 fome confiderable growth before they bear in 

 any tolerable abundance; and when advanced 

 with large full heads, they produce vail quan- 

 tities of nuts in favourable feafons, bearing 

 the fruit molUy on the young wood, towards 

 the extreine parts of tlie branches, commonly 

 two or three together in a bunch. The trees 

 producing male and female flowers feparate, 

 the former in Irnall loofe catkins, the latter 

 in clofe-fitting buds, and in which the fruit is - 

 produced as above, each inclofed in a large 

 cater hufk, or green cover, and when this 

 begins to open naturally, the nuts are In full 

 maturity, and fall out of the huik ; though 

 they are often gathered before that flate of full 

 perfedlion, efpecially for the markets, while 

 the green cover clcfely adheres ; but being 

 laid in a heap a few days, the hulk fhrinks 

 from the nut, and may readily be detached, 

 Ji e 3 However, 



