CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CE®. CO’RYLUS. 2025 
ment is at all taken into consideration. The purple-leaved hazel is a very 
handsome tree, and, with the common, may be very fitly associated in a group 
with the cut-leaved hazel ; and, as an evergreen to contrast with them, may be 
added Garrya ellfptica, the male catkins of which are often nearly 1 ft. in 
length, and appear at the same time, and continue as long, as those of the 
hazel. In many parts of France, bosquets, or small groves, and also arbours 
and coyered walks, of the hazel are often found near old chateaux ; and the 
same practice appears to have been followed in this country, if we may judge 
from the remains of covered nut walks yet existing in some old gardens. 
In shrubberies, the hazel gives rise to many interesting associations in the 
minds of those who have been brought up in nut countries. The 
writer of the article on Cérylus, in the Nouveau Du Hamel, is eloquent 
in praise of the hazel on this account; and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder 
says: “‘ The hazel, besides making up a prominent part of many a grove 
in the happiest manner, and tufting and fringing the sides of many a ravine, 
often presents us with very picturesque stems and ramifications. Then, 
when we think of the lovely scenes into which the careless steps of our youth 
have been led in search of its nuts, when autumn had begun to browa the 
points of their clusters, we are bound to it by threads of the most delightful 
associations, with those beloved ones, who were the companions of such 
idle, but happy days.” (For. Scen., i. p. 197.) 
Soil and Situation. The hazel, according to Cobbett, “ grows best upon 
what is called a hazel mould; that is to say, mould of a reddish brown: but 
it will grow almost any where, from a chalk or gravel, to a cold and wet clay; 
but the rods are durable in proportion to the dryness of the ground on which 
the hazel grows, and they are particularly good where the bottom is chalk.” 
(Woodlands, § 283.) The situation most favourable is on the sides of hills, 
for it will not thrive in a soil where water is stagnant; though, like all trees 
and shrubs that grow in dense masses, it requires a great deal of moisture ; 
and, indeed, it will always keep the ground moist under it by the denseness 
of its shade. 
Propagation and Culture. The species is propagated by nuts, which, from 
the common wild filbert, are, in plentiful years, from 20s. to 30s. a sack of 
three bushels, These may be dried in the sun, and preserved in a dry loft, 
covered with straw, or in sand, till the following February; when they may be 
sown, and treated in the same manner as mast or chestnuts. After remaining 
in the seed-bed two years, they may be transplanted into nursery lines ; and in 
one or two years more they will be fit for removal to their final situation. 
Where a hazel copse is to be formed, the nuts may be sown in drills, on 
ploughed ground, early in spring, and a crop of oats taken the first year; but 
this method cannot be recommended, as the nut, when young, is, as Cobbett 
observes, as tender as a radish, and easily injured by weeds. Plantations, 
therefore, are best made by planting ; and the plants may be setin rows at 5ft. 
