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to preserve the fruit ; for it is very pleasant to have J 

 i't all the winter lon^. Always let the filberds hang 

 on the tree till quite ripe, and that is ascertained ^ 

 by their coming out of the husk without any effort. J 

 They are then brown, and the butt ends of them j 

 white. Lay them in the sun for a day to dry ; then 

 put them in a box, or jar, or barrel, with very fine 

 dry sand. Four times as much sand as lilberds, | 

 and put them in any dry place. Here they will ^ 

 keep well till April or May ; and, perhaps, longer i\ 

 This is better a great deal than putting them, as p 

 they do in England, into jars, and the jars into a 

 cellar ; for if they do not mould in that situation, 

 they lose much of their sweetness in a few months. 

 The burning sun is apt to scorch up the leaves of 

 the Filberd tree. I would, therefore, plant a row ^ 

 of them as near as possible to the South fejice. 

 Ten trees at eight feet apart might be enough — i 

 The Filberd will do very well under the shade of 

 lofty trees, if those trees do not stand too thick. 

 And it is by no means an ugly shrub, while the 

 wood of it is, as well as the nut wood, which is, in 

 England, called hazel, and is a very good wood. 

 In the oak-woods there, hazel is very frequently | 

 the underwood ; and it makes small hoops, and is 

 applied to various other purposes. — I cannot dis- 

 miss this article without exhorting the American \ 

 farmer to provide himself with some of this sort of , 

 tree, which, when small, is easily conveyed to any 

 distance in winter, and got ready to plant out in 

 the spring. Those that are growing at Mr. Paul's 

 were dug up, in England, in January, shipped to 

 New York, carried on the top of the stage, in the 

 dead of winter to Busleton, kept in a cellar till ] 

 spring, and then planted out. These were the first [ 

 trees of the kind, as far as I have been able to ' 



