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haps, the best of all filberts. The tree is a most abundant bearer. 

 Some of the nuts are upward of an inch in length, and they have, 

 with care, been kept for four years. It is only after being kept 

 for some time that their full richness of flavor is obtained. Mr. 

 Hogg says this nut was first brought to the notice of the Horticul- 

 tural Society by A. B. Lambert about the year 1812. It is 

 improperly called Kentish Cob. The true Cobs are roundish, 

 thick-shelled nuts. Fig. 586. 



Pearson. (Dwarf Prolific, Nottingham Prolific.) Husk hairy, 

 shorter than the nut ; nut medium in size, smaller than the Cob, 

 obtusely ovate ; shell rather thick ; kernel full. A very excellent 

 variety. Trees are most abundant bearers, sometimes laden 

 with fruit when not more than 2^ feet high. 



Purple Filbert. (Purple leaved.) This differs from the red filbert 

 in having the leaves of a dark, blood-red color like those of the 

 purple beech. The fruit is similar to, and quite as good as that 

 of the Red Filbert, and is of a deep purple color. 



Red Filbert. (Red Hazel.) Husk, hairy, longer than the nut; 

 nut of medium size, ovate ; shell thick, kernel full, covered with 

 a red skin. 



White Filbert. (Wrotham Park.) Husk hairy, longer than the 

 nut, around the apex of which it is contracted ; nut medium size, 

 ovate ; shell thick ; kernel full, covered with a white skin. 



HICKORIES. 

 Pecans (JHicorta Pecan). 



It is commonly supposed that the pecan is hardy only in 

 the Southern States, and few attempts have been made to 

 grow it in the North. It flourishes best in Texas, the Gulf 

 States, and Mexico. Probably the greatest quantity sent to 

 market comes from Texas or Louisiana, where the tree grows 

 to sixty or seventy feet high in the rich alluvial bottom-lands 

 and annually produces large crops of nuts, which find a ready 

 market at very remunerative prices. The thinness of the shell, 

 its bright glossy surface, often artificially polished for market, 

 but above all the full, tender, rich kernel, combine to make 

 this member of the hickory family the popular nut-tree after 

 the chestnut grown in America. West of the Alleghanies the 

 pecan has been found growing wild and yielding good nuts 

 as far north as Southern Iowa. Forty miles north of New York 

 there are some very large old trees, which are evidently 

 hardy enough, but they have never been known to produce 

 nuts. 



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