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THE HAZEL. 



THE YOUNG CATKINS (AT CHRISTMAS). 



HAZEL CATKINS. 



Fertile flowers and staminate catkins are produced on the same 

 plant. The catkins form in the autumn iictorc the nuts are ripe, 

 and are greenish brown in colour. They stand out stiffly from the 

 shoot during the winter, one or more growing from a single pedicel 

 which springs from the angle of the leaf-stalk and the twig. About 

 February the pedicels lengthen and become pendent. The numerous 

 florets of which the catkin is composed are closely packed into a 



