150 



THE HAZEL. 



pruned into the shape of a bowl, very thin of 

 wood, and never exceeding six feet in height. 



THE FILBERT. 



The produce from trees thus treated is in certain 

 situations enormous ; as much as a ton and a half 

 having been gathered from a single acre : a ton 

 an acre is, however, considered a large crop, and 

 as total failures are very common, five hundred 

 w^eight per acre is considered a fair average. The 



