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spurring in system of pruning is adopted, and the extremities 

 of the leading shoots are shortened every spring. This throws 

 nearly all the vigor of the tree' into the bearing branches, and 

 produces a larger crop of fruit annually. 



In some parts of ib^ngland, large plantations of filberts are 

 made, for profit. Kent is the most celebrated nut growing 

 district, and the average crop there is about eight hundred 

 weight per acre, although, in good soils and favorable seasons, 

 thirty hundred weight have been raised on an acre of ground. 

 The bushes are generally trained with single stems, and the 

 heads pruned in the form of a hoop, kept about six feet high 

 from the ground. 



There does not appear to be the least obstacle to the pro- 

 fitable cultivation of the filbert on a large scale, in this country, 

 and our dry fine summers would probably be found more favor- 

 able to the production of large crops, than the moist ones of 

 England. A return of fruit is speedily received after planting 

 on good soils, and we would, with confidence, recommend a 

 trial of a filbert orchard, to enterprising cultivators. 



In gardens, a row of the finer sorts of this fruit may be 

 advantageously introduced, as a screen or barrier, in portions 

 where such a feature is desirable, as the foliage is large and 

 dense, and thus the double advantage of fruit, and privacy or 

 protection, will be realized. A. J. D. 



Art. IV. Some practical Observations on Planting Fruit 

 Trees. By J. W. Russell, Superintendent at Mount 

 Auburn. 



The planting of fruit trees, both for ornament and profit, 

 has, no doubt, been more or less practised from the earliest 

 period, in all civilized countries, and through successive gen- 

 erations, to the present time. If this be true, which I take 

 for granted, a question may be asked, as follows: — What can 

 be suggested that is new, or that is not already known, in the 

 art of planting trees? IVFy answer would be, nothing: for I 



