Brewer's: Walnut Tree

It is said that the walnut tree thrives best if the nuts are beaten off with sticks, and not gathered. Hence Fuller says, “Who, like a nut tree, must be manured by beating, or else would not bear fruit” (bk. ii. ch. 11). The saying is well known that-

A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they be.

Taylor, the Water-Poet.

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