OF FILBERTS AND HAZEL-NUTS. 247 



leading shoot at the height you would have the 

 head formed, rubbing oft* all the lower buds, 

 and leaving only as many at top as you think 

 will be sufficient to form a handsome head, and 

 according to the strength of the stem. 



Nuts when intended for keeping, should be 

 well-dried and packed in jars or boxes of dry 

 sand, (and placed in a fruit room, or dry cellar,) 

 well covered down to preserve them from mice. 



The shoots of Filbert and Nut-trees are very 

 useful for staking green-house plants and rasp- 

 berries, or for making withes to biiii faggots, 

 and for many other purposes in husbandry. 



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