MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



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Carevvs, there are many fine old Walnut-trees. Thefe trees 

 are well worth cultivating ; as the yearly value of the fruit 

 that they bear is very confiderable *. There is a great deal of 

 money made, in plentiful years, by thinning of the nuts for 

 pickling, both for home confumption, and alfo for expor- 

 tation. The leaves of Walnuts fteeped in boiling water, and 

 that infufion mixed with lime-water, foap-fuds, and urine, is 

 found very efficacious for deftroying Hugs and worms in the 

 ground, and infects on trees. 



Walnuts for keeping fhould be fuffered to drop of them- 

 felves, and afterwards laid in an open airy place till they are 

 thoroughly dried; then pack them in jars, boxes, or calks, 

 with fine clean fand, that has been well dried in the fun, in 

 an oven, or before the fire, in layers of fand and walnuts 

 alternately ; fet them in a dry place, but not where it is too 

 hot. In this manner I have kept them good till the latter 

 end of April. Before you fend them to table, wipe the fand 

 clean off ; and, if you find that they have become fhrivelled, 

 fteep them in milk and water for fix or eight hoi rs before 

 they are ufed ; this will make them plump and fine, and 

 caufe them to peel eafily. 



* At Beddington, about 50 Walnut trees (and not above half of that number full 

 bearers) have been let at 30I. 40I. and 50I. according to the crop; and it is fuppofed, that 

 in a good feafon the renter clears 50 1 by the bargain, 



JBeddington was noted in Queen Elizabeth's time for the fineft Orangery in England. 



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