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<strong>The</strong> Walnut 273<br />

the tradition tracing the cultivated walnut of Japan to Korea. <strong>The</strong><br />

Koreans again have a tradition that walnuts reached them from China<br />

about fifteen hundred years ago in the days of the Silla Kingdom. 1<br />

<strong>The</strong> Korean names for the fruit are derived from the Chinese: ho do<br />

being the equivalent of hu t'ao, kan do corresponding to k'ian Vao t<br />

and ha do to ho t'ao. <strong>The</strong> Geography of the Ming Dynasty states that<br />

walnuts are a product of<br />

1<br />

Korea.<br />

1 Korea Review, Vol. II, 1902, p. 394.<br />

* Ta Mi* i t'uA li, Ch. 89 p. 4 b.

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