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3. From whence they thrive very well, the shoots 

 being of the scantlings of small wands and switches, 

 or somewhat bigger, and such as have drawn divers 

 hairy twigs, which are by no means to be disbranch'd, 

 no more than their roots, unless by a very sparing 

 and discreet hand. Thus, your coryletum^ or copp'ce 

 of hasels, being planted about Autumn, may (as some 

 practise it) be cut within three or four inches of the 

 ground the Spring following, which the new cyon 

 will suddenly repair in clusters, and tufts of fair poles 

 of twenty, or sometimes thirty foot long : But I rather 

 should spare them till two or three years after, when 

 they shall have taken strong hold, and may be cut 

 close to the very earth, the improsperous and feeble 

 ones especially. Thus are likewise filberts to be treat- 

 ed, both of them improved much by transplanting, 

 but chiefly by graffing, and it would be try'd with 

 filberts, and even with almonds themselves, for more 

 elegant experiments. 



In the mean time, I do not confound the filbert, 

 pontic, or filbord, distinguished by its beard, among 

 our foresters (or bald hasel-nuts) which doubtless we 

 had from abroad ; and bearing the names of ave/an, 

 avelin, as I find in some ancient records and deeds in 

 my custody, where my ancestors names were written 

 Avelan, a/ias, Evelin, generally. 



4. For the place, they above all affect cold, barren, 

 dry, and sandy grounds ; also mountains, and even 

 rocky soils produce them ; and where quaries of free- 

 stone lie underneath, as that at Hasulbery in Wilts, 

 Haseling-field in Cambridge-shire, Haselmeer in Sur- 

 rey, and other places ; but more plentifully, if the 

 ground be somewhat moist, dankish and mossie, as in 

 the fresher bottoms, and sides of hills, hoults, and in 



