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CHAP. XV. 



NUTS. 



THE principal Nuts cultivated in England for the 

 dessert are the following : 



1. BOND NUT. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 6. 



2. Cob Nut. Langley, t. 57. fig. 3. 



3. Cosford Nut. Pom. Mag. t. 55. 



4. Frizzled Filbert. Ib. t. 70. 



5. Lambert's Nut. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 18. 



6. Pearson's Prolific Nut. Ib. No. 26. 



7. Red Filbert. Ib. No. 27- 



8. White Filbert. Langley, t. 57. fig. 1. 

 According to Langley, the White Filbert ripened in 



1727, July 15., and the Common Hazel and Cob Nut, 

 July 20. These, as well as all the other dates, men- 

 tioned by Langley, are those of the Old Style. The 

 Style. and Calendar having been altered September 2., 

 1752, will remove those two dates of the Nuts to the 

 26th and 31st of July. 



Propagation. 



NUTS never ought to be propagated by sowing the 

 seeds of any of the sorts enumerated in the above list ; 

 but by layers, at any time during the winter or early part 

 of the spring, before the plants begin to open their buds. 

 If the laying of them down has been properly performed* 

 the layers will be well rooted by the end of the year, 

 when they should be taken up, and planted out in the 

 nursery rows three feet apart, and a foot from each other 

 in the rows. Previously to their being planted, they 

 should be pruned, leaving only one, and that the best 

 shoot, shortening it to a foot or eighteen inches, ac- 



