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The Chefnut-tree grows forty or 

 fifty feet high, branching widely round, 

 forming a regular head, ornamented 

 with large elegant lanceolate leave?, 

 and fmall flowers, without petals, col- 

 lected in amentums, or firings, at the 

 fides of the younger branches ; the fe- 

 males becoming large round prickly 

 Capfules, inclofing the chefnuts, ar- 

 riving to maturity in Autumn. 



It is a hardy tree, grows freely irr 

 any common foil, and open expofure ; 

 and merits admittance in our fruit-tree 

 eol lection, ejpecially in extend vegrounds, 

 trained as full fiandards, to plant on 

 the boundaries of orchards, or in parks 

 and avenues, arranged in concert with 

 Walnuts, &c, thirty or forty fcct 9 or 



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