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Adam in Eden, Or^ 



loBg Wall-nuc. 5. The Wall-nuc which beareth twice in a year. 6. s;,, Johns 

 Wall-nuc, or the late- ripe Wall-niu,which fhootech not forth any leaics', till 

 itbeMidlummer. 7. The white Wall-nut of r/r^wV*. 8. Thebhck Wari-ni-.c 

 oil^irginia. But becaufeallthelekindsdiffcr little in their vertne, I '.vill dc- 

 kribe here none but the ordinary Wall-nuc. 



The Forme. 



"fhsff-'all-nfftis alufty Tr^e both for height and bulfe, and Iprcadsth loriLi 

 many large Arms-and B6ughijand tnull make a ^)ddly ffudow^ vOhen the leaves 

 are on, which confift of rive or fix faltned to one rib, with one lianding on the 

 top, like thofe of the A{h,but that they are much larger -* the bark is ibmewhai: 

 green in the younger boughs; but in the Trunk, itis tending to the colour of 

 Afhes, and is full of clefts for the moll part; It beareth Catkins or Agict:s,vvhich 

 come forth before the Nuts, of a yellowifli colour, which open into Small 

 . flowers, and falling away, the round Nuts come in their places, two or three u- 

 lually fet together; but fomctimes half a dozen or more,which are jcovcred witii 

 a double (hell; the outermottjgreenjfoft, thick, of a Hrongfmell, the jnice co- 

 louring black; under which there is a wooddy fliell, wherein a white fvvce!; 

 Kernel is contained, endofed with a yellowifli, bitter peeling, which commcth 

 off eafily while it is frefh, butwillnotdofowhenitisold: the inner pulp 

 thereof is white, fweet, and pleafant to the taft, when it is newly gathered; for 

 after it is dry it becommeth oily and rank. Of the whole fruit growing on the 

 Tree, there is this common old Riddle, which almolt every Child c an lay . Its 

 Ai high as an Hi>Hff> As little as a Moi*fe i 



As round Hi ^ S-t!!, ^ij l:cit, .:s C-'i! J 



As -white as Ji£lk.i AsfoftusSilk^ 

 The Wood is much uled by Joyners, to make Tables, Stools, &c. h is very 

 durable if it be kept dry,buc rots preiently in the weather. 



The Place indTime, 



Theplace of its firft ■Nativity was- in Per/*, wHehce either the whole Tree 

 hath been brought into divers other parts, or elfe the Nuts, which being put 

 into the ground, do produce the Tree.; for there is no otherwayofpropjgi- 

 iingit, unleffeitbe of^he Vtrginian-M^ds. It grpweth commonly in EttgLtnd., 

 and (bme ether places, in Orchards, Gardens, and fometimes in-the ftreets,?.tod 

 by the 'way fides, where the Boys lie continually pelting ac them. There is- a 

 Fable in (i/Epp, of a Worrjah which asked the Wall-nut-Tree, growing by the 

 waylide, which was pelted at with ftones and iHcks, by them that paffed by, 

 W'hy it was fo foolilh as to bring forth fruit,rceing that it was fo beaten for its 

 pains, to whiijh the Tree rehearfcd thefe two Provetbiall Vcrfes; 



Nux-fAfnusy Mnlier^fmilifitnt Ugeligati ■' / 



HactrianilreBefacinnttfiverbera cejfent. 



The "Bnglifi} whereof I could tell ycni, but that I fear the Women of this pre- 

 polkroas Age would be angry. True it is,ihat this Tree, the more it isbeateni 

 the morC^uts it bears ; and therefore good Husbands, after they have beaten 

 down thei^uts, do with long Poles, beat the empty boughs ot the Tree; and I 

 bsve obferveduhat thofe Trees whichhave grown in the Ifreets, have been 'ull> 

 when thole whichhavegroweninthebacklidcshavchad'Tcarceanyi w'uch I 

 could impute to nothingelte, but chat thole in the ftreet were bw^en^n^i 

 throwen at, more then the other: tbcy bloflbm early before the leaves come 

 forth, and the tmit is ripe in Stftefffhr, except Se. Johns fVall-mr, wliith tipcn- 

 €th not till OSfc^frc 



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