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and produces the flowers and fruit from 

 the fides of the branches, being male and 

 female, flowers feparate, without petals 5 

 the males in long yellowim amentums, 

 in Winter, and the females in clole-fit- 

 ting clutters, in the Spring, fucceeded 

 by the "clutters of Nuts, inclofed each in 

 its torn calix or cup, ripening in Au- 

 guft and September. 



The Common Wood Nut Trees grow 

 in vail abundance in our woods and 

 hedges, and are fometimes admitted in 

 Gardens* &c. for variety. 



But the other larger forts, being im- 

 proved varieties, are cultivated more a- 

 bundantly in gardens and orchards, but 

 the Filbert mod of all, for the goodnefs 



of 



