31. 
THE HAZEL. 
Corylus avellana. 
Puate 4, Fie. 11. 
bre, 
<< EMINISCENCES of schoolboy days 
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and the delights of ‘nutting’ are 
suggested by the mention of the 
Hazel. More familiar perhaps to 
many persons as a somewhat 
straggling hedgerow-shrub, it is 
yet a Tree in reality, for it grows to the 
£*) ~~ height of more than twenty feet. Its 
x bark when young is smooth and of a 
peculiarly ash-coloured hue, with speckles of 
brown and grey; and by this it is easy to 
identify it. 
In its—deciduous—leaves there is a general 
