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8- YEAR-OLD FILBERT IN MARYLAND 



Felix Gillet, of Nevada Citv, Cal., a French nurseryman and writer on the subject of filberts 

 and almonds collected at his Barren Hill Nursery a number of the best European varieties 

 of filberts. The illustration is of a tree of the Geant des tialles variety of Corylus avellana 

 raised in Maryland from a layer of one of this collection. The great vigor and unusual free- 

 dom from disease of the whole collection and the fact that they bear regularly suggest the 

 advisability of trying them again in the Eastern States on well-drained hillsides. (Fig. 4.) 



