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3. The Barcelona, or Spanifh Nut, with large cups. 



4. The Common Wood-nut, with red-fkinned kernels. 



5. The Filbert with white kernels. 



6. The Filbert with red kernels. 



7. The Large CI after Wood- nut. 



Of Propagating and Pruning Nut-Trees. 



Filberts and Nuts of all kinds are propagated from feed, 

 layers, and fuckers ; but thofe who willi to have fine forts 

 fhould graft the trees, or lay down in March fome of the 

 ftraighteft fhoots, notched at a joint, pegging them into the 

 ground ; then cover them with earth about three inches thick, 

 making bafins round them with edges of mould about two 

 inches higher than the furface of the ground, to prevent the 

 water's running off'; water them fometimes in dry weather, 

 and mulch them with fome rotten leaves, to keep them moid. 

 By the following Autumn they will be fit to take up and plant 

 out in beds in the nurfery, where they fhould remain about 

 two years, planting them out in Auguft where you wifh 

 them to remain for good. If any of the layers have not 

 taken proper root, they may be left till the Autumn fol- 

 lowing. 



Filberts and Nuts may be planted on the outfides of woods, 

 or in the back parts of fli rubber ies and pleafure- grounds, or 

 in large kitchen-gardens, in ihady walks ; or for the purpofe 

 of hiding theds, cifterns, &c. 



When they are railed from feed, it fhould be fown in Au- 

 tumn, in a light earth ; and it will be neceflary to cover the 

 beds all over with flates, flat flones or bricks, to prevent 



the 



