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among other fruit to the best tables for dessert, and un- 

 said to fatten, but too much eaten are obnoxious to the 

 asthmatic. In the mean time of this I have had expe- 

 rience, that Hazel-nuts, but the Filbert especially, being 

 full ripe, and peeled in warm water (as they blanch 

 almonds) make a pudding very little, if at all, inferior to 

 that our ladies make of almonds.'''' 



The following passage is interesting to an admirer of 

 Evelyn : 



" I do not," says he, " confound the filbert Pontic, or 

 filberd distinguished by its beard, with our foresters, or 

 bald Hazel-nuts, which doubtless we had from abroad, 

 and bearing the names of Avelan, Avelin ; as I find in 

 some ancient records and deeds in my custody, where 

 my ancestors" names were written Avelan, alias EveJin, 

 generally." 



He observes that the Hazel " prospers well where 

 quarries of freestone lie underneath, as at Hazelbury in 

 Wilts; Hazeling-field in Cambridgeshire; Ha/lemere 

 in Surrey, and other places." The places here mentioned 

 are evidently named from the Hazel. 



The spreading roots of the Hazel are reckoned vcrv 

 mischievous in a vineyard : 



" Neve inter vites corylum sere." 



VIRGIL, Georgic ii. 

 " Plant no hazels among your vines." 



The goat also is an enemy to the vineyard, and on 

 that account was sacrificed by the Romans to Haccluis ; 

 and the entrails were roasted on ha/el spits. They used 

 ha/el twig> to bind the vines. 



Thomson, dcM-ribing the birds preparing nests for their 

 young, s\>. 



