FILBERT.-CORYLUS. 



A Species of the Hazh-Tree. In Botany, a 

 Genus of the Mon&cia Polyandria Class. 



FILBERTS were originally brought out of 

 Pontus into Natolia and Greece, and were 

 therefore called Pontic nuts : from thence 

 they were procured by the Romans, and 

 brought into Italy, where they acquired the 

 name of Abellani, or Avellana nuts, from 

 Abella or Avellins, a town of Campania; 

 where the best were cultivated, (Plin. b. xv. 

 c. 22.) and from thence arose the French 

 name Aveline. 



These nuts still continue to be cultivated 

 in the same situation ; and, according to Mr. 

 Swinburn's account, the whole face of the 

 neighbouring valley is covered with them, 

 and which, in good years, brings in a profit of 

 60,000 ducats (l 1,250.) 



Fuller, who wrote in the year 1660, says, 

 " gardening was first brought into England, 



