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CHAPTER XIX. 



OF FILBERTS AND HAZLE-NUTS. 



The Sorts commonly cultivated in England- — Method of Culture — •• 

 Horn to keep them in Winter. 



FlLBERTS and Hazel-nuts grow wild in woods and hedges, 

 and are brought in great quantities to the London markets, 

 and to thofe of other large towns throughout the kingdom ; 

 employing a great many poor families during the Autumn, 

 who otherwife might have very little to do,, and of courfe 

 be a burden on the publick. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the eighth order of Lin- 

 naeus' s twenty- firft clafs, Moncecia Polyandria. 



The Sorts generally cultivated in England are the following,, viz.. 

 i. The Large Cob-nut. 



z.. The large long Nut, which produces very fine large fruit. 



A a 2 3. The 



