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    FBTJITS IN THEIR SEASON. 261

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    $. Pheasant Are The Fresh Fruits That De...

    farmers there were forinerly not allowed to inarry until they could produce a certificate showing that they had planted a certain

    number of these trees . They are doubly valuable on account of the timberthe wood being noted both for beauty and durability , and

    also for , the nuts , the latter perhaps chiefly on account of the oil pressed from them , which is much employed abroad for culinary

    and other purposes , half the people in France , it is said , using no other kind , whether for food or for burning in lamps , while for the

    special purposes of the painter and copper-plate engraver it is of peculiar worth . The shells of the larger kinds of nuts are

    sometimes brought into use , as they make pretty trinket cases , and in Limerick the delicate kid gloves for which that place is famous are

    often thus enclosed , in order to give a pleasant surprise to the . A far more wonderful deposit was that effected by one Peter

    Eccles opener , an Englishman and a clerk in Chancery , who , as recorded in the Harleian Manuscripts , wrote out the whole Bible within so

    small a compass that , when finished , he enclosed it complete in a large English walnutno bigger than a hen ' s egg ; the nut holdeth

    the book , as was seen , by many thousands . " To the durable stain affordec _) by the green outer husk many a

    fugitive has been indebted for the very effectual disguise of a changed complexion , while for dyeing the hair it has been employed

    ever since the days of the Romans . When it is wished to remove the discoloration from the skinthis may be partially effected by

    the application of moistened salt , , but time alone can entirely efface it .

    As an article of diet the nuts are considered wholesome so long as the skin can be easily detached ; but when as they dry this ceases

    to be the case they become indigestible , and from their acritude are also injurious to the gums . The home-born ones are esteemed the

    best , and as our walnut-wood is mostly imported from abroad , the tree is generally grown in England for the sake of the fruit , but as it

    the supply of natives is by no means sufficient for our appetite , is supplemented by large quantities of foreigners : more than 32000 bushels were admitted in 1852 chiefly brought from

    France , and _SjDain . The hickory nuts sometimes , seen in London , and which are of Transatlantic growth , are also a species of the

    walnut tribe , many varieties of which are common in America . They are mostly characterized by possessing a very hard shell and

    a very small kernel .

    ( To he continued . )'

    Fbtjits In Their Season. 261

    FBTJITS IN THEIR _SEASON . 261

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/45/