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the authorities to marry a wife, unless he can prove that he has 

 planted a certain number of walnut trees. This wood is much 

 used among us by cabinet makers, for various articles of furniture, 

 and in our churches for wainscoting and pews. They alford a 

 magnificent and ornamental tree for a lawn or avenue, and should 

 be planted certainly not less than sixty feet apart, even along a 

 road, as the branches and roots extend a great dis\ance. The nuts 

 are delicious as a dessert, and from it is extracted an oil fit for 

 frying food in, or burning in lamps. One bushel of nuts yields fif- 

 teen pounds of kernels, and they seven and a half pounds of oil. 

 The husks of the nut and leaves of the tree may be boiled slightly, 

 and the li(|uor poured upon grass plats overrun with insects and 

 "worms, all of which will be immediately killed, without injury to 

 the grass. The early spring buds, if taken off and dried, make a 

 capital pepper. The nuts may be preserved for winter consump- 

 tion in their own leaves, or if buried, they will keep perfectly for 

 a 3'ear, and come out of the ground as plump in kernel as when 

 placed in it In Italy, when a countryman has a pain in his side, 

 he at once drinks a pint of nut oil, and is cured. The juice of the 

 rind of the nut will make a gargle that will cure a sore throat. If 

 a vessel leaks, rub a kernel upon it, and it will remedy the evil 

 quicker than pitch or wax. Nuts are particularly indigestible un- 

 less the brown skin covering the kernel is taken off. It resists the 

 gastric juice of the stomach, causing various indispositions that we 

 are frequently at a loss to account for. 



There are eleven varieties of the walnuts : 



Mockernut hickory Juglans tomentosa. 



Water butternut hickory do aquatica. 



Common walnut do regia. 



Butternut do cathartica. 



Black walnut do nigra. 



Pacanenut hickory do olivse formis. 



Bitternut hickory do amara. 



Nutmeg hickory do myristicse formis. 



Shellbark hickory. . o . . do squamosa. 



Thick shellbark hickory do laciniosa. 



