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gipsies For the rich olive hue that the juice will give to the 
skin. These uses, together with the beauty in the landscape 
that is given by an old Walnut tree, will always secure for it a 
place among English trees; yet there can be little doubt that 
the Walnut is a bad neighbour to other crops, and for that 
reason its numbers in England have been much diminished. 
Phillips said there was a decided antipathy between Apples and 
Walnuts, and spoke of the Apple tree as 
“ Uneasy, sealed by funereal Yew 
Or Walnut (whose malignant touch impairs 
All generous fruits), or near the bitter dews 
Of Cherries.” 
And in this he was probably right, though the mischief caused 
to the Apple tree more probably arises from the dense shade 
thrown by the Walnut tree than by any malarious exhalation 
emitted from it. 
TOarfceit, see (pears. 
Mbeat. 
(1) Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas 
Of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Vetches, Oats, and Pease. 
Tempest , iv. i, 60. 
(2) More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear, 
When Wheat is green, when Plawthorn-buds appear. 
Midsummer Nigh?s Dream, i. 1, 184. 
(j) His reasons are as two grains of Wheat hid in two bushels of chaff j 
you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, 
they are not worth the search .—Merchant of Venice, i. 1, 114. 
(4) As peace should still her Wheaten garland wear. 
Hamlet , v. 2, 41.- 
