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Walnuts, to Preserve

Fill an earthen pot with them, and cover them with clay an inch thick. At Christmas-time they will be found as fresh as when first gathered. Another way is to put the walnuts into a common earthenware jar with an earthenware lid, and bury the jar in the earth about a foot deep in a place not too wet nor too dry. A third way is as follows. Gather the walnuts on a dry day, and directly they are taken out of the rind, put them into large flower-pots holding two pecks (any pans, however, will do as well), and when nearly full cover the pots two inches thick with sawdust. Place the pots on the floor in a wine-cellar.