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may be seen, in the enclosure of a residence 

 on Harvard street, two fine trees of this kind, 

 either of them much taller and laTgerlhan 

 the largest -sized of our apple-trees. We have 

 eaten nuts from these trees, well-ripened and 

 fully equal to any of those which are import- 

 ed. The trees often bear a crop of some 

 bushels of the fruit. Downing says this tree 

 " may, with due care, be grafted on the com- 

 mon hickory nut. 5 '* 



The Filbert. This is only an improved 

 variety of the common wild hazel nut of Eu- 

 rope. It is not very generally known, that 

 this fine nut may be easily grown, in open 

 culture, in a suitable soil, here in the eastern 

 states. 



We saw fine samples of the filbert, which 

 were grown in Boston, and exhibited at the 

 last Annual Exhibition of the Mass. Horti- 

 cultural Society. From an Article, on the 

 457th page of the second volume of Down- 

 ing's Horticulturist, we learn "that a filbert 

 tree (or rather bush,) may be rendered produc- 

 tive, in almost as small a space as is occupied 

 by an ordinary gooseberry or currant bush. 

 In fact says the writer under favorable 



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