What Are Walnut Trees?
of the Alps by the conquering Roman legionaries, and when it had become established in England it was called ‘walnut’, which is derived from words which originally meant ‘foreign nut.’ Walnuts develop a bole, or trunk, or great character, stout rather than tall and clothed with a mesh-work of grey bark bearing smooth, silvery ribs. Their twigs are very stout, and carry large, brown, rounded buds, set singly. If you cut a twig across, at an angle, you will see large hollow pith is broken into small chambers by thin membranes, a unique figure. The leaves open late, at the beginning of May, and each had a long stalk bearing about seven oval, smooth-edged leaflets, forming a ‘compound’ leaf. If you crush the leaf, you will at once smell the pungent, pleasant aroma that characterizes this tree. The leaf juice will also stain your fingers brown. Gypsy girls use it to make their faces look sun-tanned, dark and alluring. In autumn the leaves turn black and fall in broken fragments. Male catkin
