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produced perfect fruit. Hermaphrodites some yearsbear 

 fair crops ; some years not more than one-half, or three- 

 fourths. But this has borne full crops, and we judge 

 will continue to do so. 



nijBEE,TS. 



Filberts do not require a very rich soil, but grow well 

 in that which is rocky and gravelly. The ground is 

 kept clean around the trees, which are placed about twelve 

 feet apart. They are very carefully pruned, and one stem 

 only is left to branch out, a few inches above the ground ; 

 the branches are trained and pruned in the shape of a 

 punchbowl, and are not allowed to run above four or five 

 feet high. Thus they will bear abundantly, and very 

 profitably. When the filberts arc gathered, they are laid 

 to dry in the sun, or under a shed exposed to the air. If 

 they are well dried, they will keep good for several years. 



The above refers to England ; but would not this tree 

 succeed in the United States, and prove profitable to the 

 cultivators of it? It seems to us that some trials on the 

 culture of it in this country ought to be made; as also on 

 the English Walnut, so termed, which has proved profit- 

 able in some instances at least. 



