The Walnut holds an honoured place in heraldry. Two large Walnut trees overshadow the tomb of the poet Waller in Beaconsfield churchyard, and "these are connected with a curious piece of family history. The tree was chosen as the Waller crest after Agincourt, where the head of the family took the Duke of Orleans prisoner, and took afterwards as his crest the arms of Orleans hanging by a label in a Walnut tree with this motto for the device: _Hæc fructus virtutis._"--_Gardener's Chronicle_, Aug., 1878. Walnuts are still very popular, but not as poison antidotes; their popularity now rests on their use as pickles, their excellence as autumn and winter dessert fruits, and with pseudo-gipsies for the rich olive hue that the juice will give to the skin. These uses, together with the beauty in the landscape that is given by an old Walnut tree, will always secure for it a place among English trees; yet there can be little doubt that the Walnut is a bad neighbour to other crops, and for that reason its numbers in England have been much diminished. Phillips said there was a decided antipathy between Apples and Walnuts, and spoke of the Apple tree as-- "Uneasy, seated by funereal Yew Or Walnut (whose malignant touch impairs All generous fruits), or near the bitter dews Of Cherries." And in this he was probably right, though the mischief caused to the Apple tree more probably arises from the dense shade thrown by the Walnut tree than by any malarious exhalation emitted from it. FOOTNOTES: [315:1] See Earle's "Philology of the English Tongue," p. 23. WARDEN, _see_ PEARS. WHEAT. (1) _Iris._ Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Vetches, Oats, and Pease. _Tempest_, act iv, sc. 1 (60). (2) _Helena._ More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, When Wheat is green, when Hawthorn-buds appear. _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act i, sc. 1 (184). (3) _Bassanio._ His reasons are as two grains of Wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. _Merchant of Venice_, act i, sc. 1 (114). (4) _Hamlet._ As peace should still her Wheaten garland wear. _Hamlet_, act v, sc. 2 (41). (5) _Pompey._ To send measures of Wheat to Rome. _Antony and Cleopatra_, act ii, sc. 6 (36). (6) _Edgar._ This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. . . . He mildews the white Wheat, and hurts the poor creatures of earth. _King Lear_, act iii, sc. 4 (120). (7) _Pandarus._ He that will have a cake out of the Wheat, must needs tarry the grinding. _Troilus and Cressida_, act i, sc. 1 (15). (8) _Davy._