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THE WALNUT. I3I 
builders, and cabinet-makers, but is not highly esteemed for 
other purposes to which timber is put in this country. 
The Oriental Plane is popularly supposed to have been intro- 
duced to England from the Levant by Francis Bacon, but if 
Loudon’s statement that it was “ in British gardens before 
1548” rests on good evidence. Bacon’s claim is dismissed, for 
he was not “ introduced ” until 1561. It was nearly a hundred 
years later (1640) that the Occidental Plane was first brought 
from Virginia by the younger Tradescant, and planted in that 
remarkable garden of his father’s in South Lambeth Road. 
The form that has done so well in London, and of which many 
fine examples are to be seen in the parks and squares, is a 
variety of the Oriental Plane, with leaves less deeply divided 
than those of the type, and therefore more nearly approaching 
the Occidental Plane in this respect. It is distinguished by 
the name of the Maple-leaved Plane {Plataniis orientalis, var. 
acerifolia). It is this variety we have chosen as the subject for 
our photograph. 
The Walnut {Juglans regia). 
In the Golden Age, when man lived happily on a handful of 
acorns, the gods fed upon walnuts, and so their name was Jovis 
glans — the nuts of Jupiter — since contracted into Juglans. 
Those who delight in obvious interpretations by appealing to 
the modern meanings of words similar in construction may be 
pardoned for supposing that Walnut-trees were formerly trained 
against walls ; but, like many other obvious interpretations, this 
is wide of the mark. Some have gone back to the Anglo-Saxons 
for help, and though the result arrived at is in all probability 
the correct one, it is almost certain that the Anglo-Saxons knew 
nothing of the matter, and would scarcely trouble to give a 
name to something they had never seen. The Walnut is a 
native of the Himalayas, the Hindu Kuh, Persia, Lebanon, and 
