. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . d bymodern botanists into three genera. Of these speciesit is necessary to mention only two as timber-trees,—the Common Walnut-tree {Ji/glatis regici) and theWhite Walnut, or hickery-tree (Jvglans alba). Thefirst of these is a native of the warmer parts ofEurope, or perhaps of Asia ; and the last is a nativeof America. The common walnut is a very handsome and avery useful tree. It is true that the fruit does notcome to maturity in the northern parts of this island ;and that in the southern, nay in
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . d bymodern botanists into three genera. Of these speciesit is necessary to mention only two as timber-trees,—the Common Walnut-tree {Ji/glatis regici) and theWhite Walnut, or hickery-tree (Jvglans alba). Thefirst of these is a native of the warmer parts ofEurope, or perhaps of Asia ; and the last is a nativeof America. The common walnut is a very handsome and avery useful tree. It is true that the fruit does notcome to maturity in the northern parts of this island ;and that in the southern, nay in countries much far-ther south, it is apt to be injured by the frosts of THE WALNUT. 13/ sprinjj. In many parts of this country it thrives wellas a tree, and wherever it thrives it is vahiable. As is the case with all trees and plants that havebeen lonjij known, esteemed, and cultivated by man,the oriicinal coiuitry ot the walnut is not are of o])inion that it is the Persian nutmentioned by Theojjhrastus; and that, therefore,Persia is the country from which it was first intro-. TValnut—Jvglans regia. duced into Europe. It is found indigenous in themore northern parts of that country, toward the moun-tains of Caucasus ; sometimes, thou2;h more rarely,,in the Russian territory on the north of those moun-tains ; and in China. In all these situations, itgrows, according to the best authorities, in a state ofnature, and continues itself without cultivation. Inthe east of France, the south of Germany, and Swit-zerland, it is very abundant, more especially in Ger-many ; in many parts of which, such as the plains ofthe Bergstrdsse, which run parallel to the Rhine, be- N 3 138 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. tween the Neckar and Mayn, there is hardly any othertimber.* In En2:land there are still a good many treesscattered over the country; but the number is not sogreat as it was formerly, the partiality for the woodsof the colonies and other foreign countries havingdiminished the
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