A slow drizzling rain set in: the damp fogs that belong to that river-bottom walled in the house and hung flat over the walnuts like a roof.
As the stout figure passed through the low branches of the walnuts her gray eyes began to shine.
In the station at Lagozza, walnuts have been found in a much higher stratum, and not ancient.
Evidently the walnuts of Italy, Switzerland, and France are not descended from the fossil plants of the quaternary tufa of which I spoke just now.
The maples were all aflame with crimson, the walnuts were orange, the hemlocks and cedars were wellnigh black; while the slender birches, with their pale yellow leaves, seemed painted upon them as pictures are laid upon a dark ground.
There haply with her jewelled hands She smooths her silken gown,-- No more the homespun lap wherein I shook the walnuts down.
When your pickled walnuts are soft, mash them through the vinegar which covers them, strain it and boil it to a proper thickness.
Place thewalnuts in your jars, and strew over them about four ounces of mustard seed, pounded and sifted, then pour the spiced vinegar over and cover them closely.
To one hundred walnuts take one gallon of the best vinegar, one ounce of pepper, one ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mace, half an ounce of nutmeg, four ounces of ginger.
Rub your walnuts well with a coarse towel, and lay them for two weeks in salt and water strong enough to float an egg.
I know those walnuts are disagreeing with her right now, and I'm glad.
And I just hope thosewalnuts will disagree with your stomach---so now!
There were peanut butter sandwiches, and a sliced pickle, and a few creamed walnuts that Ruth had bought at the Unique Candy Store and divided between the younger girls.
The great ashes and walnuts twisted and writhed, and had their branches stripped upward of their leaves, as a child might draw a head of blossoming grass between his thumb and finger.
Since walnuts are enveloped in a thin rind, which partakes of the nature of .
Personally I would not hesitate to plant as good an acre of land as there is in Lancaster County, or ten or twenty or fifty acres, to the better types of English walnuts that we have today.
Last fall for the first time that tree bore walnuts--about a bushel and a half; and the employees of the postoffice gathered those walnuts and sent them in a complimentary way to me.
They were selected walnuts the best and larger ones.
And why not get game and squirrel lovers and tree planters in general to enthuse about the planting of black walnuts with a liberal sprinkling of butternuts?
Suppose now and then the boys do get a few fallen walnuts or apples.
At any rate there are two thousand pounds of American black walnuts that have been shipped to China, and if nothing happens to them they will grow and adorn that new road from Shanghai to Hankow.
I am in favor of road-side planting but I do not think blackwalnuts would be acceptable in this part of the country, from what my experience has been.
Last fall the ladies of the Mount Vernon Association gave to the Northern Nut Growers Association all of the walnuts upon the trees at Washington's home.
Following all this I had about two thousand of these walnuts left.
So that we have about two thousand youngwalnuts growing about as high as this table from last year's planting.
I once had an aunt, when I was a very small boy, and it seems to me she said that she raised forty bushels of black walnutson one tree.
They discovered unexpected stores of walnuts and acorns and wild rose hips, and scarlet bitter-sweet just opening its gorgeous berries after the first hard frosts.
Frank came over with a handful of minute green walnuts interspersed with a choice assortment of gooseberries and green plums.
Morton always liked to have a basket of walnuts handy on Sunday afternoons.
She stood irresolute for an instant, undecided whether to read or to fetch somewalnuts from the smokehouse for Sunday.
Piles of doughnuts and baskets of apples and walnuts stood awaiting the sharp appetites the Mortons knew the cold ride would bring to them.
When the growth of our apple, cherry and peach trees ceased because of the dry weather, our walnuts kept on growing as if supplied by continuous rains.
Walnuts are not like other fruits; size is not a sure indication of weight.
Another young grove is proving that walnuts do well on clayey hill land of buckshot nature, where the drainage is good and there is no rock or hardpan.
California walnuts are largely shipped east, the percentage entering the northern markets being comparatively small.
If we have this pre-eminence at the beginning of the industry, what may we expect when intelligent cultivation has produced the best grade of walnuts of which our soil and climate are capable?
In European countries walnuts come into bearing from the sixteenth to the twenty-fourth year; in Oregon, from the eighth to the tenth year; grafted trees, sixth year.
While western Oregon is universally conceded to be the natural walnut center, eastern Oregon also has its localities where walnuts bear heavily, and will prove a good commercial crop.
While it is generally said that walnuts come into bearing after 8 years, Mr. Terpening states that the grafted tree will bear commercially in 6 years, which tallies exactly with my experience.
Cal Maggard, who had known walnuts only growing in the forest, gazed down now with something of wonderment at this one which stood alone.
Parish Thornton stood under the black walnut again that afternoon and with his jackknife he was carving a small basket out of one of the walnuts that had fallen at his feet.
I observed to-day that he breaks walnuts (which are too hard for him to crack with his teeth) by striking them with the flat bottom of a dish he has for drinking out of.
To-day I gave him a hammer to break his walnuts with, and he uses it in a proper manner for that purpose.
They are in great demand for confectionery, and are really better for such purposes than the larger and fancy bleached walnuts imported under the somewhat general name of Grenobles, or French walnuts.
The ancients also believed that walnuts possessed powerful medicinal properties, even to the curing of hydrophobia; but in these latter days they have lost most of their curative virtues, in the opinion of the medical fraternity.
If walnuts of any of the native or foreign species have been successfully propagated by budding or grafting, at any of the nurseries in our Eastern States, it has not been made known in the nurserymen's catalogues.
In anticipation of the question being asked, I will say that, at present, I do not know of any nurseryman in the Eastern States who propagates or imports named varieties of walnuts for sale.
Prune walnuts in summer or early in winter, to give time for the wounds to season before the buds swell in spring.
Sargent has discovered other hybrid walnuts in the neighborhood of Boston, and figured and described one in Garden and Forest for Oct.
A number of persons whose ages permitted them to scan the early days of the present century, have assured me that in their childhood they had often collected walnuts from goodly sized trees on farms, from Harlem northward on the island.
Propagating walnuts by layers is practicable, where the small trees have been cut down to force out new shoots near the surface of the ground, then bent down and covered with soil in the usual method of layering woody plants.
The walnuts are hard, and it's all we can do to crack 'em.
The process for making them is the same as that described for making mocha walnuts except that lemon or vanilla extract is used instead of coffee,--see No.
The result, however, will not be so distinctively dainty and will be little improvement upon the mocha walnuts and pecan creams described above.
Walnuts or pecans can be treated in the same way with white or colored fondant.
Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half, Radish roots one pound, green Asarabacca six ounces, Radish seeds, six ounces.
Now the willows begin to mark its course, then elms and oaks and walnuts with little thickets of panicled dogwood and wild plum, where the wild grape and the bittersweet display their fruit and the wild duck sometimes makes her nest.
We sat an hour on the ruined walls, listening to the roar and rush of the flood, and enjoying the shade of the walnuts and sycamores.
How spilled with berries were its summer hills, And strewn with walnuts all its autumn rills!
Boil till the syrup makes a thread, then cool till it begins to thicken, and stir in the walnuts and drop on buttered paper.
Or mix the celery and the walnuts and mayonnaise; either salad is nice.
Mix all together, lay on white hearts of lettuce on plates, and then put the walnuts on top, two on each plate.
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