FRUITS. CHAP. 



then, as house- grapes, come the Black Damascus, Muscat 

 of Alexandria, Royal Muscadine, Black Frankendale, Black 

 Hamburgh, Black Prince, Black Frontignac, Grizzly Fronlig- 

 nac, Red Frontignac, White Frontignac, White Sweet-water, 

 Marseilles, White Nice, Syrian. 



286. WALNUT. The way to raise walnut-trees, is, 

 this. When the walnuts are quite ripe, make them per- 

 fectly dry and preserve them in precisely the manner di- 

 rected for the filberd. Sow them late in February, and 

 the tree will be a foot high by the next fall. If it be to 

 stand where it is sowed, nothing more is necessary than 

 to keep the ground about it clean, and to prune off the 

 side-shoots at the bottom, always leaving a tolerable head 

 until you have a clear trunk of the height that you de- 

 hire. If the tree be to be transplanted, you ought to 

 take it up in the fall after the spring of sowing it ; for it 

 lias along tap-root, and will remove with great difficulty 

 if you suffer it to remain for two or three years. When 

 you take the young plant up, cut off the tap-root to 

 within six inches of the part which met the top of the 

 ground j transplant it into a nursery ; let it stand there 

 for three years, and then it will remove with a good i 

 busliey root. Keep the side-shoots pruned off in the 

 manner before-directed ; and the head of the tree will 

 form itself. It is said that walnut-trees should be 

 threshed or beaten, a saying which has certainly arisen 

 from the want of a good reason for knocking down the 

 fruit, which, like nuts and filberds, should always hang 

 till it drops from the tree. 



