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of the Middle States, are excellent, even in their uncultivated state, where 

 they have to contend with every possible disadvantage. They are something 

 between the English hazle-nut and the filbert, and, with a little care, might 

 be rendered very productive and profitable. They are much better than the 

 Spanish nuts, which are sold at Philadelphia for a shilling sterling a pint, or 

 thereabouts ; and yet no pains are taken to cultivate them. Our sorts, too, 

 might be obtained at a very small expence. 1 have sent several plants to my 

 friends at Bustletown, which, I hear, grow very well ; and I have lately sent 

 them some of the finest hasle-nuts I ever saw, and which 1 got from the gar- 

 den of Joseph Galloway, Esq. at Waterford. If these succeed, 1 hope it vf ill 

 be an inducement for others to obtain a like supply. 



