HOW TO KNOW THE TREES 

 GROWING IN BRITAIN 



With Notes, descriptive and photographic, for their Identification 

 in all Seasons of the Year 



By HENRY IRVING 



THE WALNUT 



THIS tree grows to a considerable size, 

 and is both handsome and pictur- 

 csqne. It has marked dignity. 

 From the time of the ancient Greeks, it 



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has been distinguished by the epithet 

 " kingly." Its fruit, also, has been ever 

 greatly esteemed. With us the walnut 

 is mainly a tree of the planted park 

 or garden, though here 

 and there it may be found 

 ranking with the trees of 

 the wayside as in the 

 green lanes of North 

 De\'on in the neighbour- 

 hood of Porlock. This 

 might have been more 

 general but for the de- 

 mands made upon its 

 timber for the manufac- 

 ture of gun-stocks in the 

 time of the Napoleonic 

 wars. It is a distinctive 

 feature in any landscape 

 where it occurs. 



In winter, silhouetted 

 against the sky, it is one 

 of the cleanest of our 

 trees, being entirely bare 

 of everything save buds. 

 Dividing into branches 

 rather low down, it 

 throws these out and up 

 with a superb gesture. 

 These branches again di- 

 vide and subdi\'ide with 

 inhnitude of graceful cur- 

 vature. 



In spring its leaves ex- 

 pand russet-tinted, and 

 at the same time its 

 green, handsome, pollen- 

 bearing catkins grow out 

 and elongate. 



In Slimmer its massed 

 foliage, yellowish green, in 



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