Walnuts
The Common Walnut, a large and handsome tree, with strong, spreading
boughs, is not a native of Britain. Its native place is probably Persia.
Other varieties of Walnut, the Black Walnut, the various kinds of
Hickory, etc., are mostly natives of North America.
The Romans called the tree nux, on account of its fruit. The English
name Walnut is partly of Teutonic origin, the Germans naming the nut
Wallnuss, or Welsche Nuss – Welsche signifying foreign.
It was said that in the ‘golden age,’ when men lived upon acorns the gods lived upon Walnuts, and hence the name of Juglans, Jovis glans, or Jupiter’s nuts.
It was said that in the ‘golden age,’ when men lived upon acorns the gods lived upon Walnuts, and hence the name of Juglans, Jovis glans, or Jupiter’s nuts.