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cabinets, tea-chests, &c. The great use of the hazel, however, is for under- 
growth. Being extremely tough and flexible, the root shoots are used for 
making crates, hurdles, hoops, wattles, walkingsticks, fishing-rods, whip 
handles, ties for faggots, springes to catch birds, and for fastening down the 
thatch, and for withs and bands for general purposes. A strong fence is made 
by driving stakes into the ground, and wattling the space between them with 
hazel rods. Evelyn tells us that out-houses, and even cottages, were some- 
times made in this manner. In the county of Durham, particularly in the 
Vale of Derwent, hazel coppices are grown extensively for what are called 
corf rods, and hoops for coopers. The corf rods are from }in. to 2in. in 
diameter, and are used for making the baskets called corves, employed for 
drawing coals out of the pits. (Bailey's Survey of Durham, p. 187.) It is much 
rown, in Staffordshire, for crates for the potters; but, generally speaking, 
(though, if left a sufficient time, it will afford poles 20 ft. in length), it is found 
so inferior to other undergrowths, that Farey, in his excellent Derbyshire Re- 
port, advises the grubbing of it up, and replacing it with ash and oak. He 
also objects to it for hedgerows, on account of the temptation it offers to boys 
to break the hedges, in order to get at the nuts; and because the leaves and 
young shoots are said to be injurious to cattle if eaten by them, and to pro- 
duce the disease called the red water. (Gen. View, &c., vol. ii. p. 91.) Hazel 
rods, cut as nearly as possible of the same size, and varnished, form an admi- 
rable material for constructing rustic garden seats, like that shown in jig. 1944., 
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and flower-baskets (jig. 1945.). An agreeable variety may be produced by 
using the rods alternately peeled, and with their bark on; or by mixing them 
with rods of some other kind of wood. Unpeeled hazel rods are, however, 
both handsomer and more durable than similar rods of any other kind of tree ; 
and a variety may be produced in them by choosing them with bark of dif- 
ferent shades ; or even staining them with a decoction of logwood, or other 
dye, and then arranging them in a pattern, as shown in the arbour jig. 1946. 
Mr. Matthews, a carpenter residing at Frimley in Berkshire, has carried this 
idea still further, and, by an ingenious arrangement of different-coloured hazel 
rods, he produces a complete landscape, which, seen at a little distance, has a 
very striking effect. (See Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 678.) Faggots of hazel are 
in great demand for heating ovens; and the p sath which is very light, is 
