THE WALNUT. 
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spicy aroma. I once rejoiced in the occupation of a garden 
that held two Walnut-trees, and though they had not attained 
to the fruiting age, their possession was a delight to me ; but 
then I am one of those who enjoy their fragrance, which is un- 
A, female flowers ; B, male flowers. 
bearable to some persons. The large leaves are formed after the 
fashion of the Ash-leaf — broken up into a variable number of 
lance-shaped leaflets with scarcely perceptible teeth. 
The flowering of the Walnut is much on the plan of the Oak 
and the Hazel, the sexes being in different flowers, but borne by 
