The Walnut Tree. 



ing the summer ; and if well managed they will be a foot 

 and a half high in the month of October, that is to say the 

 American Walnuts will, but the English Walnuts will 

 not be so high. They would be very little higher if sowed 

 in the fall, instead of the spring ; and they might be raked 

 out of the ground, by various vermin, and particularly by 

 mice ; the moles also might annoy them ; and the worms, 

 together with the beatings of the rain and the heavings of 

 the frost, would render success much more doubtful, than 

 if the sowing took place in the spring. 



550. The seedling Walnut has a long big tap-root, of 

 softish texture, and has few fibres attached to it, and those 

 few not of any considerable length. It is a tree therefore, 

 that is never to be moved without care. The American 

 Walnuts have larger and longer tap-roots than the 

 English Walnut. When the seedlings are removed from 

 the seed-bed to the nursery, which they should be in the 

 month of November, or March or April, the tap-root should 

 be cut off to about eight inches in length ; and the plants, 

 having been first sorted or sized, should be put into the 

 nursery in the manner directed for the Ash, but with 

 greater care. The earth should be made very fine about 

 the root, which should be very firmly fixed in the ground 

 by hand and foot, and, if the weather be dry at the time of 

 performing this work, it would be good to give the plants 

 a good watering in a couple of days after they have been 

 planted out, taking care to let the ground be thoroughly 

 dry upon the top before you water. 



551. These trees ought to stand in the nursery two years, 

 because, they will require that time to get good root and 

 to fit them for their final removal. When they are finally 

 removed, you will find many side-roots to have come out 



