How to Prune the Filbert. 



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common hazel, when they are fully expanded, may be hung 

 on the branches. 



The county of Kent 

 has been long celebrated 

 for the production of large 

 crops of filberts. That 

 mode of pruning must be 

 good which has been suc- 

 cessfully practised for gen- 

 erations ; and we there- 

 fore cannot do better than 

 give the method pursued 

 by the Maidstone cultiva- 

 tors, as it is minutely de- 

 tailed by the Rev. Wm. 

 Williamson in the 4th 

 volume of the first series 

 of the Transactions of 

 the Horticultural Society. 

 The author of the com- 

 munication treats the cul- 

 tivation of the filbert un- 

 der the following divis- 

 ions : Soil, Raisi7ig the 

 Plants, Manure and 

 Pruning ; which last, he 

 adds, forms the great dis- 

 tinction between the cul- 

 tivation in Kent and in 

 other counties. 



"The suckers are taken 

 Fig. 14. Tiie Filbert Tree. ^ro^ the parent plant gen- 



aaa, wood buds ; b b, blossom buds. erally in the autumn, and 

 planted in nursery beds (being first shortened to 10 or 12 

 inches,) where they remain three or four years. They are 

 slightly pruned every year, in order to form strong lateral 

 shoots, the number of which varies from four to six. Bui 



