A Catalogue of Fruits. 
SECT. VIII. 
Of Figs, Walnuts, Nuts, and Fillerds. 
Figs are highly efteem’d by Ibme,where¬ 
of the Great Blue Fig is moft accounted of 3 
next unto it, the Dwarf Blue Fig, being 
much lefs in Tree and Fruit, but better 
tailed, and fooner ripe. 
The Walnuts , (or rather Gaul-nuts , or 
French-nuts, coming originally out of 
France , and corruptly called Wclfh-mits in 
the JTef/er»'parts of England, the G being 
in time pronounced as a W, as Guerre 
IVarre, Guardian Warden , 8ec. and fo 
Galnut Walnut') areuniverfally fpread over 
this Country} of which there are feveral 
forts. 
The Great Double Walnut infome places 
ripens very well, is very fweet; but the 
Kernel anfwers not the bignels of the Shell. 
There are other forts that are leller, with 
very hard Shells, and fweet Kernels, that 
ripen very well in any place. 
But the belt are thofe of a tender thin 
Shell, and a full Kernel, and of a middle 
fize. 
' There is another fort that grows near 
Salk* 
