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CULTIVATION OF WALNUTS. 
In writing on this subject I haveboldly avowed my opinions, some 
of them I am apt to imagine are purely original, and having written 
for the purposes of information and elucidation, I will willingly an¬ 
swer any interrogatories that may be required; and so far as I may 
be mistaken, shall be most happy to submit to proper correction from 
whatever quarter it may proceed. Every thing I see, every word I 
hear, and every sentence I read in reference to this subject, all tend 
to confirm the conviction before expressed, “ that Mr. Seymour s 
system is so perfect, it need only he seen and understood to be uni¬ 
versally adopted throughout Great Britain.” 
Henry Dyson. 
Doncaster , Jan. 22, 1823. 
ARTICLE II. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF WALNUTS IN CASHMERE. 
COMMUNICATED BY I. T. 
From the Manuscript Papers of the late Mr. William Moorcroft, Published in 
the Second Volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. 
There are four varieties of Walnuts in Cashmere, called Khanuk- 
doonoo, which is wild; Wantoo, Doonoo, and Kaghzee, which are 
cultivated. The Khanuk-doonoo, or forest walnut, is dimunitive, 
with a very thick hard shell, and small proportion of kernel, so 
firmly engaged in narrow compartments with strong partitions, as 
not to he worth the trouble of extricating. The nut of Wantoo is a 
little larger; but the shell cannot he broken, except by a sharp blow 
from a stone or a hammer ; nor can the kernel be got out, except 
with difficulty. The nut of the Doonoo is somewhat larger still, its 
shell thick, but in a less degree ; the kernel large and good, and is 
readily extracted. The Kaghzee is so called from its shell being 
almost as thin as paper. It admits of being broken by the pressure 
of the hand, is the largest of the whole ; aud its kernel is also large, 
and easily removable. 
It is not known whether the Wantoo and Doonoo were originally 
distinct varieties, and have acquired their character from cultivation ; 
hut it is reported, that the Kaghzee owes its superiority to having 
been engrafted; the practice of engrafting being, however, at present 
generally discontinued, from a knowledge of this variety being 
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