. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. »r- ^liitje li|:ilIB^^1t Juglans Cinerm. Natural Order: JuglandacemâWalnut Family. â VERYWHERE throughout our country, but more especially in the Northern and Middle States, the White Walnut, per- haps more commonly known as the Butternut, is to be found. The former is the more proper designation, as it belongs among the true Wa
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. »r- ^liitje li|:ilIB^^1t Juglans Cinerm. Natural Order: JuglandacemâWalnut Family. â VERYWHERE throughout our country, but more especially in the Northern and Middle States, the White Walnut, per- haps more commonly known as the Butternut, is to be found. The former is the more proper designation, as it belongs among the true Walnuts. The trunk is usually rather short, but large in girth. The branches spread horizontally, giving it a large, rounded head, sometimes thirty or forty feet high. The foliage has a plumy appearance, each leaf being composed of several leaflets arranged in pairs along a stem, with a single one to terminate the point. The nut is elongated in shape, and encased in a husk or sheath that is inseparable from it, and in that respect differing from other Walnuts. The kernel is very sweet, pleasant-flavored, and rich in oil, which gives it its most familiar synonym. The wood is useful in some of the arts. The bark is used in medicine as a cathartic, and by dyers to produce a brown â yET I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. âTennyson. 'piME has small pow'r When set; and music from the broken shrine O'er features the mind molds. Roses, where Breathes, it is said, around whose altar-stone They once have bloom'd, a fragrance leave behind; His flower the votary has ceased to twine:- And harmony will linger on the wind; Types of the beauty that, when youth is gone, [cline And suns continue to light up the air. Breathes from the soul whose brightness mock, de- â Georffe Hill. ^iriTH mind her mantling cheek must glow, Her voice, her beaming eye, must show An all-inspiring soul. _^â,,. p^^^^-^
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