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II. An Account of a Walnut-tree, which bore Fruit at an 

 early Period, from Seed. In a Letter to the Secretary. By 

 Anthony Carlisle, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. 



Read March 3, 1812. 

 My dear Sir, 



e following account of the favourable growth, and the 

 early bearing of a Walnut-tree, may perhaps coincide with 

 the purposes of the Horticultural Society. 



A parcel of Walnuts were sent to me at Christmas, 1801, 

 by my late excellent and estimable friend, Mr. Thomas 

 Wedgwood, from near Blandford. The nuts were of a middle 

 size, thin shelled, and of a compact oval form. They were of 

 a particularly good kind for the table ; but having been kept 

 for several weeks in a close cask, in a damp state, they had 

 begun to vegetate, and the germs were bursting through the 

 seams of the shells. I had a wish to extend the remem- 

 brance of one whom I much esteemed, by raising a tree 

 from these Walnuts, in the garden of my friend, Captain 

 William Parker, at Camberwell Terrace. Six of these 

 Walnuts were therefore planted, about two and a half inches 

 deep, in the month of March, 1802. 



This garden is situate nearly at the bottom of a hill which 

 inclines northward, and the descent of the surface is nearly 

 one foot in twelve. The spot where the tree (to be described) 

 was planted, and whence it has never been moved, is about 



