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of a short crop, and often results in none at all. But in 

 the milder western counties there is a more rapid 

 development of the male flowers, which meets the 

 case. As a consequence there are abundant crops of 

 nuts annually. Here, then, is the field for growing the 

 Filbert. 



To plant a Filbert ground a spot should be selected 

 sheltered from the sea, and protected from the cutting 

 east winds. The soil should be moderate^ 7 dry, and 

 the plants should be placed in rows ten feet apart from 

 row to row, and six feet from plant to plant. Clean 

 two or three-year old plants should be used, and they 

 should be planted in the early part of November. 



The propagation of the Filbert is by sowing the nuts 

 and by suckers. The nuts should be sown in the 

 autumn or in February. If deferred till the spring, it 

 is necessary to preserve them in a cellar or in some 

 damp place, but to insure success sow the nuts three or 

 four inches deep in drills of fine soil. After the first 

 or second season plant the seedlings out in rows one 

 foot apart ; here they may remain for two seasons, then 

 transplant them to where they are to be placed per- 

 manently. The suckers may be taken off in the autumn, 

 and transplanted as for seedlings. The fruit comes 

 on not less than two-year- old wood, therefore only the 

 young wood must be pruned off in the pruning time, 

 which should be in December or January. 



The Walnut. 



They say the more you thrash a Walnut-tree the 

 better it bears. The reason is, that the Walnut bears 

 its fruit on the young growth, like the Grape, so that 

 by beating the nuts off the tree with a pole, and thus 

 breaking the ends off the branches, additional growth 

 is made the followim? season. The Walnut will not 

 bear till the tree is of a good age, then it will do so 

 successively for fifty or a hundred years. 



Its propagation is by seed only. The nuts shoidd be 

 sown in deep drills, or dibbed in four or five inches 



