Familiar trees / With coloured plates by W.H.J. Boot.

  • Boulger, G. S. (George Simonds), 1853-1922.
Date:
[1887-1888]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Familiar trees / With coloured plates by W.H.J. Boot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Juglans regia, L.) first glance we seem in the name Walnut to have an etymological solecism. Whilst, however, the Wall-flower is a flower that grows commonly on walls, the Walnut (a name practically identical with that borne by the tree in Germany) is the Welsh, foreign, or Italian nut, the Italians being to the Ger- mans of the Continent the foreign neighbours that the Britons of Wales were to our English ancestors. The Walnut was so valued by the Romans, both as yielding a furni- ture wood and as a fruit- bearing tree, that they probably introduced it both into Germany and into Britain; but it is not a native of Italy. Its original 33