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Chapter IX. 

 The walnut TR EE. 



The Species an : 



1. The common Walnut. 



2. The large French Walnut, 



3. The thin-flieird Walnut, 



4. The double Walnut. 



5. The late-ripe Walnut. 



6. The hard-fliell'd Walnut. 



7. The Virginian black Walnut.. 



8. The Virginian black Walnut, with a long furrow'd 



fruit. 



9. The Hickory, or white Virginian Walnut. 



10. The fmall Hickory, or white Virginian Walnut. 



'R MILLER, in the Gardener's Dictionary, feems to be of 

 opinion, that the firft-mentioned fix kinds are only feminal 

 variations, and not diftincSl fpecies, as in rnoft other forts of fruit- 

 trees ; and fays, the trees raifed from thefe different feeds, rarely 

 produce the fame kinds of fruit again. This is a point I have- 

 not lived long eno\igh to determine ; for tho' I have planted the 

 feeds of all the fpecies of Walnuts (or names given them for fiich) 

 I could procure, marking thefe fpecies or names diflincftly, I have 

 jet reap'd very little fruit from them ; but one circumflance I am 



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