Walnut
a genus comprising seven or eight species of beautiful trees of the natural order Juglandaceæ . All are trees with alternate pinnated leaves, monœcious flowers , and a drupe-like fruit, with a deciduous fleshy husk, which bursts irregularly, and a deeply wrinkled valves, within which is the seed, curiously lobed and membranaceous testa and partial dissepiments.
The common walnut (J. regia) is a native of Persia and the Himalayas, but has long been cultivated in all parts of the S. of Europe. The date of its introduction is unknown, but it was certainly cultivated by the Romans in vated by the Romans in the reign of tree of 60 to 90 feet, with large spreading branches. The WALPOLE leaves have two to four pairs of leaflets, and a terminal one . They have a fine however, being much more marked in balsamic odor when bruised; this quality, some trees than in others. An infusion of them has been found useful in scrofula; when bruised and rubbed on the skin they are efficacious in curing itch; and placed in wardrobes they prevent the ravages of moths . The sap is limpid like WALNUT water, but contains much sugar, so that the tree is sometimes tapped for it, like the sugar maple, and the sugar is procured by evaporation; a pleasant kind of wine is also made from it.
FORD, an English author, 3d son of