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FILBERTS. 



Of this fruit we have two kinds, 

 commonly cultivated in the South of 

 England, the red and the white, both 

 equally good, and of which the culture 

 is of considerable value in the county of 

 Kent. As these trees affect a shady 

 situation, they are usually planted in 

 the same rows as the apple trees, at about 

 six feet distance, so that their growth does 

 not impede the working of the land be- 

 tween the rows. 



The trees usually selected in Kent for 

 this purpose, are raised from layers, as 

 being less liable to produce suckers at the 

 bottom, and are trained up to single stems 

 about eighteen inches high, when they are 

 suffered to branch out, and whilst young 

 to have three or four shoots only. When 

 the trees, or more properly shrubs, have 

 reached six I'eet high, which they com- 

 monly do the year after planting, the 

 trees are pruned every year regularly, 

 the same as gooseberries and currants, 

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