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CHAPTER XIII. 



NUTS. 



THE principal Nuts cultivated in England for the dessert 

 are the following : 



1. BOND NUT. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 6. 



2. Cob Nut. Langley, t. 57. fig. 3. 



3. Cosford Nut. Pom. Mag. t. 55. 



4. Frizzled Filbert. 76. t. 70. 



5. Lambert's Nut. Hort. Soc. Ca*. No. 18. 



6. Pearson's Prolific Nut. Ib. No. 26. 



7. Red Filbert. 76. No. 27. 



. White Filbert. Langky, t. 57. fig. 1. 



According to Langley, the White Filbert ripened in 1727, 

 July 15, and the Common Hazel and Cob Nut, July 20. 

 These, as well as all the other dates, mentioned by Langley, 

 are those of the Old Style. The Style and Calendar having 

 been altered September 2, 1752, will remove those two 

 dates of the Nuts to the 26th and 31st of July. 



Propagation. 



NUTS never ought to be propagated by sowing the seeds of 

 any of the sorts enumerated in the above list ; but by layers, 

 at any time during the winter or early part of the spring, be- 

 fore their plants begin to open their buds. If the laying 

 of them down has been properly performed, the layers will 

 be well rooted by the end of the year, when they should 

 be taken up, and planted out in the nursery rows three feet 

 apart, and a foot from each other in the rows. Previously 

 to their being planted, they should be pruned, leaving only 

 one, and that the best shoot, shortening it to a foot or eighteen 

 inches, according to its strength. As the plants grow up, 

 they should be trained with single stems of eighteen inches 

 or two feet high, which will allow room to clear away any 

 suckers the plants may afterwards produce. When the 

 plants are finally planted out where they are intended to re- 

 main, care must be taken, by annual pruning, to form their 

 heads handsomely ; keeping them thin and open ; cutting 

 away all irregular, superfluous, vigorous shoots ; and re- 

 moving any suckers which may spring up, observing, at the 

 same time, not to injure the roots. 



