XIV. NUTS. 



The Constantinople Nut, (Corylus colurna), and the Cuckold Nut, 

 (Corylus rostrata), have not been included in the following 

 enumeration; neither of them being worthy of cultivation in 

 the Fruit Garden. The former seldom bears in this country, 

 and the nut of the latter is small and worthless. The Filberts 

 are those kinds with long husks, extending considerably beyond 

 the nut ; formerly the red and the white Filberts were the 

 kinds particularly denominated by this term, but in consequence 

 of the increase of cross-bred varieties, the husks of which de- 

 viate from the shortness of those of the nuts, and approach in 

 length those of the Filberts, the distinction between them is 

 now rendered inevident. It may be remarked that Nuts were 

 formerly divided into " Short bearded," and " Long, or Full 

 bearded ;" from the latter, Filbert appears to have been derived, 

 and a term of analogous signification will be found among the 

 German Synonyms. The abbreviations are as follow ; 



1. Form. ov. oval; obi. oblong; comp. compressed; round, ov. roundish oval. 



2. Size. 1, large; 2, middle; 3, small. 



3. Husk. h. hispid; s. smooth, or nearly so. 



