. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . ed meto think the story was not only plausible, but verycredible. Having occasion to send for some plantsfor a garden which I had at Agadeer, or Santa Cruz, 320 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. the foulah (gardener) brought, amons^st other thint^s,a few bits of wood, without any roots or leaf, abouteighteen inches long and three in circumference, whichhe with a large stone knocked into the ground. See-ing the fellow thus employed, I asked him what hemeant by trifling in that way? I am not trifling,said he, bu
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . ed meto think the story was not only plausible, but verycredible. Having occasion to send for some plantsfor a garden which I had at Agadeer, or Santa Cruz, 320 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. the foulah (gardener) brought, amons^st other thint^s,a few bits of wood, without any roots or leaf, abouteighteen inches long and three in circumference, whichhe with a large stone knocked into the ground. See-ing the fellow thus employed, I asked him what hemeant by trifling in that way? I am not trifling,said he, but planting your pomegranate trees. Ibegan to take them out of the ground; but somepersons who were near assuring me that it was themode in which they were always planted, and thatthey would (with the blessing of God) take root andshoot forth leaves the next year, I was at length pre-vailed on to leave a few in the ground, merely forexperiment;—and they certainly did take root, andwere in a fair way of becoming good trees when Ileft Santa Cruz. Chapter —^walnut; chesnut; a. ffalnut. b. Chesnut. c. Hazel-nut. Nuts, properly so called, are hard dry fruits, contain-ing- one or two seeds, and not in any deg^ree fleshy orpulpy. They are often surrounded by a leafy orwoody husk, which is called the involucre, enlarg^edas a covering to the fruit. The kernels of all theesculent nuts are considered as being; veiy nutritious,on account of the quantity of oil that they contain ;but on that account they are less digestible than anyother ven^etable matters. As some of the principalkinds have been already described with considerableminuteness as trees, a very brief account of suchwill be given. The Walnut—Juglans regia. The nuts of this tree have, when perfectly ripe, avery agreeable flavour; and the tree being besides 2 F 322 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. exceedingly valuable as timber, and highly orna-mental, it is well worthy of cultivation. In thisrespect its properties a
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