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stems were removed as soon as they appeared, and under 

 such treatment the plants made a vigorous growth. Two 

 years later quite a number of the trees came into bear- 

 ing, these showing that I was 'likely to have nearly as 

 many varieties in my orchard as there were trees. Some 

 of the varieties might be better than the parent, but the 

 greater part were certain to be inferior in size. The 

 fourth year after planting in the orchard the trees gave 

 me a heavy crop of nuts, and they made a fine appear- 



FIG. 41. VARIETIES OF FILBERTS AND HAZEL SEEDLINGS. 



ance as one looked down between the long rows, as 

 shown in Fig. 40. But this season my old enemy, the 

 filbert blight, appeared again, and branches and main 

 stems began to blacken and the leaves to wither. But I 

 had bushels of nuts and in great variety, and by send- 

 ing specimen baskets of the long-husk varieties to deal- 

 ers in New York, learned that there was an almost 

 unlimited demand for such nuts, at prices ranging from. 



