. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. 1? II '*^. (iO\hit« Malm lit i?lUllanS cilUTCa. Natural Order; yHglaiidaccLCâWalnitt Fami/y. VERYWHERE throughout our country, but more especially ^^ , in the Northern and Middle States, the White Walnut, per- 'i"^ 'haps more commonly known as the Butternut, is to be tbund. The former is the more proper designation, as it belongs y s 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 lbrt_\- teet high. Th
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. 1? II '*^. (iO\hit« Malm lit i?lUllanS cilUTCa. Natural Order; yHglaiidaccLCâWalnitt Fami/y. VERYWHERE throughout our country, but more especially ^^ , in the Northern and Middle States, the White Walnut, per- 'i"^ 'haps more commonly known as the Butternut, is to be tbund. The former is the more proper designation, as it belongs y s 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 lbrt_\- teet high. The foliage has a plumy appearance, eacli leaf being composed of se\eral 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 bv dvers to produce a brown Unbrrslftnbinq* ^ET I douht I ^ And the tho ights gli the men ai small pow 'yiME ha ^ O'er features the mind molds. Roses, where They once have blooni'd, a fragrance leave behind; And harmony will linger on the wind; And suns continue to lisht up the air. :s one increasmg purpose runs, videned with the process of the suns. â Temiyson. When set; and music from the broken shrine Breathes, it is said, around whose altar-stone His flower the votary has ceased to twine -^ Types of the beauty that, when youth is gone, [cli Breathes tVom the soul whose brig;htness mocks ( Gfo, â ll^ITH mind her mantling , Her voice, her beaming An all-inspiring soul. eek Frhl YjIND, despatch'd upon the busy toil, [soil: She should imbue the tongue with what she si] 'â ' Should range where Providence has blessed the And shed the balmy blessings on the lips, \'isiting every flo
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