VI. LIST OF FRUITS. 



should not stand there longer before they be finally re- 

 moved. A very good situation for filberds would be not 

 far from the hedge in the outer garden j where they 

 should never be suffered to grow to too great a height j 

 never higher than to make it a matter of no difficulty to 

 gather the fruit with the hand. In Kent, which county 

 produces more filberds than all the rest of the country 

 put together, the trees are planted in rows at about ten 

 or twelve feet apart, and at about the same distance 

 apart in the row. Care is taken to have a clear stem or 

 trunk about afoot high, after which limbs are suffered to 

 come out in every direction. Care is taken to prevent any 

 limbs from going upright above a certain height, and an 

 annual pruning takes place in the winter to take out all dead 

 wood, all shoots that cross one another, and to keep the 

 middle of the tree clear, so that the sun and air find their 

 way to every part of it. Filberds, like every description 

 of hazel, will grow and bear under the shade of lofty 

 trees ; but the fruit is not so abundant and not nearly so 

 fine. To preserve filberds for use through the winter, and 

 until the spring, follow precisely the direction given in 

 the case of the chesnut. There are two sorts of filberds, the 

 scarlet and the grey, those being the colours of the skins 

 of the kernals. Filberds are really never good till they 

 are quite ready to drop out of the husk, or green shell, and 

 until the bud ends of them are white : if taken out of the 

 husk at an earlier stage than this, the kernels will shrivel, 



<270. GOOSEBERRY._This is a fruit, which, in all its 

 qualities, is upon a par with the currant, whether for 

 eating in its natural state, for cooking, or for preserving -, 

 for, though we in England do not commonly make use 



