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place [Avella, near Naples] where ng had been most successfully 
propagated.” The young forked twigs of this shrub constitute the cel- 
ebrated divining rod with which certain heen eyond the Atlantic 
pretend to discover the localities of precious metals and subterranean 
fountains. The imposture, and the credulity on which it eesid ion 
both reached our shores; but the Filbert not being indigenous here, a 
capital substitute was discovered in = Witt nee (Hamamelis) ! 
ie ni wigs of Peach trees also, haye to answer the pur 
early as well as the Witch Hazel ; and ps the sonal, eae of « ore- 
«Wie, 290.4 flowering branch of the cultivated Filbert or Lut (Corylas A orylus Ave ) 
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