THE WALNUT TREE: TALES OF GROWING AND USES. By Charles Hulbert-Powell.

2019 1st edition. 8vo (159 x 241mm). Pp192. Colour photographs throughout, bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

An interesting and practical book on the walnut tree, it's cultivation and its products. Chapters include: Tree planting; The walnut grove; Farm animals to benefit the trees; The enemies of the walnut tree; Walnut varieties; The black walnut; Trees in other parts of the world, disease; The timber; The walnut and the manufacture of guns; The leaf and the nut; The summer and husbandry; The ripe walnuts; French and other walnut growers; Cracking the nut and preparing for sale; Walnut oil; Walnuts as food; The autumn and winter; The health issue; Art and the walnut; Miscellaneous; Conclusion.