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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
tcrs of purple flowers.—Native of Virginia and Peru. 
(Any common foil.) 
The principal merit of this Ihrub is to diverfify Ihrub- 
feeries, and other plantations in pleafure-grounds, and 
to encreafe the variety, in the colle&icn of deciduous 
Ill rubs; is raifed, for fale, in all the nurferies, and may 
be planted any time in the general planting fcafon; and 
is propagated by layers and cuttings of the young 
wood; alfo by feed, commonly obtained from America 
by t!»e feedfmen, in the fpring, and may then be fowed 
in a bed or border of common earth, or in pots placed 
in an eaiterly border. 
Juglans, WALNUT-TREE, andHxccoRV. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Polyandria, 
One Houfe, Many Males ; 
Cr Flowers, Male and Female, feparate ok the fame 
Tree, with the Males having numerous Stamina. 
THE Family cf Juglans confifts'of feveral fpecies 
and varieties of large, deciduous, fruit, foreft, and 
ornamental trees, to plant in orchards and gardens for 
their production of nuts, with eatable kernels, and to 
diverfify large plantations in pleafure-grounds, parks, 
and other diftridts, being moftly of large growth, with 
confiderable branchy heads, garnifhed, in fummer, with 
large, compound, winged leaves, compofed of from 
two or three, to five, fix, or feven pair of oblong fo- 
lioles, or diftindt lobes, terminated by an odd or end 
foliole; and male and female flowers, feparate; the 
males collefted into final!, oblong, cylindric, fcaly cat¬ 
kins, each fcale forming a cup to one floret, and females 
growing in clofe-placed clufters, and have four-parted 
cups; the corolla, or flower, finall, monopetalous, fix- 
parted in the males, in the females four-parted; with 
many ftamina in the males, and in the female flowers 
an oval germen fupporting two ftyles; and the germen 
grows a large, oval, roundilh, drupaceous, green fruit, 
two, three, or more, together in a duller, containing 
each a roundilh, or oval, furrowed, hard-lhelied nut, 
filled with a four-lobed eatable kernel, ripe in autumn, 
and by which alfo the trees are commonly raifed. 
The Species of JUGLANS are, 
i. Juglans regia. Royal, or Common Walnut Tree. 
A large, deciduous tree, growing fifty, to fixty or 
feventy feet high, with a large, widely-branching head 
—the leaves {large, light-green) winged or pinnated, 
compofed of two or three pair of oval, fawed, fmooth, 
equal folioles, terminated by an odd one; and fmall 
greenifli flowers, in April and May, fucceeded by large 
auts, ripe, for eating, in September and October.—Na¬ 
tive of Europe, &c. {Loamy, chalky, or ' any common 
foil.) 
Varieties of the fruit. — Early, Oval Walnut. 
Round Walnut. 
Large Walnut. 
Double Walnut. 
Late Walnut. 
Tender-ihelled Walnut, 
Hard-lhelied Walnut. 
Jagged-leaved Walnut Tree. 
2. Juglans nigra. Black Virginia Walnut-Tree. 
A large, deciduous tree, growing forty or fifty, to 
fi.yty leet high the leaves (middling, dark-green) 
winged or pinnated, compofed of feven pair of fpear- 
fhape lobes, and an end-cne, the exterior folioles finali¬ 
st; and finall hard-fiielled fruit.—Native of Virgi¬ 
nia and Maryland. (Loamy , or any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Round-fruited Black Walnut. 
Oblong-fruited Black Walnut. 
3. Juglans alba. White Virginia Walnut, or Hic- 
cory Nut. 
A middling, deciduous tree, thirty or forty feet high 
—the leaves (middling, light-green) winged or pin¬ 
nated, compofed of three pair of fpear-ihape, fawed 
folioles, and an end-one feflile, or fitting clofe; and 
fmall whitiflv-flielled fruit.—Native of Virginia. (Any 
common foil-) 
Varieties. —Smooth-barked White Virginia Walnut, 
or Hiccory-tree. 
Rough, or Shag-barked Hiccory. 
Small-fruited Hiccory. 
Larger-fruited Hiccory. 
Oval-fruited. 
4. Juglans cinerea. Cinereous, or Alh-coloured 
American Walnut-Tree. 
A middling, deciduous tree, growing thirty or forty 
feet high—the leaves ( middling ) pinnated, of eleven 
fpear-ihape lobes, the bafe fliorteft.—Native of North 
America. (Any common foil.) 
Varieties of different Species. —Pecan, or Illinois Hic¬ 
cory. 
Balfam Hiccory. 
Small White Hiccory. 
Virgate, or Twiggy Hiccory. 
