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THE COSFORD NUT. 



Cosford Nut. Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 405. Hort. Soc. 

 Fruit Cat. p. 35. 



The first notice we find of this variety is in the 

 volume of the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society above referred to ; where it is described as 

 having been received from Mr. Kirke, of Brompton, 

 who still cultivates it, and from whom the plants 

 in the Garden of the Horticultural Society were 

 obtained, which afforded the materials of the present 

 drawing. It was exhibited in the course of this 

 season at one of the meetings of the Ipswich Hor- 

 ticultural Society ; and as there is a Hundred in 

 Suffolk of the name of Cosford, it is not improbable 

 that the variety originated in that part of the 

 country- 

 It highly deserves cultivation, being a great 

 bearer, and having a remarkably thin shell ; both 

 of which qualities entitle it to attention. 



The Tree grows vigorously, and the branches 

 upright. Involucrum nearly the length of the 

 Nut, slightly hispid at the base. When the Nut 

 is ripe, which happens early, the involucrum ex- 

 pands, but is not reflexed ; its segments are deeply 

 divided. 



Nut large, oblong, cylindrical at the base, ra- 

 ther broader and slightly compressed towards the 



