The Walnut Tree. 



beauty, and particularly the Sour Tupelo, the leaves of 

 which are from five to six inches long, are of a pale green 

 at top, and whitish on the under side. The wood of the 

 common Tupei.o is higlily esteemed for some few purposes, 

 on account of its inaptitude to split. For this reason 

 wooden bowls are sometimes made of it 5 various other 

 things are made out of the wood, where it happens to be 

 found in abundance, and to stand in the way of the farmer ; 

 but this is upon a very limited scale, and I regard these trees 

 solely as trees of ornament. 



TRS WAI.NUT. 



In Latin, Juglans ; in French, Noisetitr. 



544. The botanical characters are the same, in all respects, as those of the 

 Hickory, >Nhich see in paras^raph 292. 



545. The English Walnut-Trek is too well known to 

 need a particular description here ; but there are two dis- 

 tinct varieties of the American Walnut, and both of them 

 good as Ti.MBER Trees. I shall first speak of the man- 

 ner of raising Walnut Trees generally, and then give an 

 account of those of America. 



546. There are several different varieties of our English, 

 or European, Walnut, which the botanists call Juglans 

 Regia. These varieties, however, are distinguished only 

 by the different size of the fruit, its different thickness of 

 shell, and by the different qualities of the fruit. In out- 

 ward appearances all the varieties are alike ; and there is 

 no ditference, that I know of, in the wood of any of them. 



547. The Walnut-Tree is raised from the seed, and ow/y 

 from the seed. The Walnuts, when rij)e, and ascertained 

 to be sound, which may be done by putting them into 



