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See paragraphs 289 to 296. In this country th 

 currant requires shade in summer.mexposedfre 

 to the full sun, the fruit is apt to beco oo sour.hld 

 Plant it therefore, in the er'SB eto 



307. FIG. There areseveral sorts of Figs, 

 but all would ripen in this country. The only 

 difficulty must be to protect the trees m winter, 

 which can hardly be done without covering pret^- 

 ty closely. Figs are raised either from cutting's 

 or layers, which are treated as other cuttings and 

 layers are. See Paragraphs 275 and 277. The 

 fig is a mawkish thing at best ; and, amongst such 

 quantities of fine fruit as this country produces, 

 it can, from mere curiosity only be thought worth 

 raising at all, and especially at great trouble. 



308. FILBERIX This is a sort of Nut oblong 

 in shape, very thin in the shell, and in flavour as 

 much superior to the common nut as a Water- 

 melon is to a pumpkin. The American nut tree is 

 a drawf shrub. The filberd is a tall one, and will, 

 under favourable circumstances, reach the height 

 of thirty feet. I never saw any Filberd trees in 

 this country, except those that I sent from Eng- 

 land in 1800. They were six in number, and 

 they are now growing in the garden of the late 

 Mr. JAMES PAUL, of Lower Dublin Township, in 

 Philadelphia county. I saw them in 1817, when 

 they were, I should suppose, about 20 feet high. 

 They had always borne,, I was told, very large 

 quantities, never failing. Perhaps five or six 

 bushels a year, measured in the husk, a produce 

 very seldom witnessed in England ; so that, there 

 js no doubt that the climate is extremely favour- 

 able to them. Indeed to what, that is good for 

 man, is it not favourable ? The Filberd is pro- 



