CHAP. XV. NUTS. THE principal Nuts cultivated in England for the dessert are the following: 1. BOND NUT. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 6. 2. Cob Nut. Langley, t. 57. fig. 3. 3. Cosford Nut. Pom. Mag. t. 55. 5. Lambert's Nut. Ib. t. 70. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 18. 6. Pearson's Prolific Nut. Ib. No. 26. 7. Red Filbert. Ib. No. 27. 8. White Filbert. Langley, t. 57. fig. 1. According to Langley, the White Filbert ripened in 1727, July 15., and the Common Hazel and Cob Nut, July 20. These, as well as all the other dates, mentioned by Langley, are those of the Old Style. The Style and Calendar having been altered September 2., 1752, will remove those two dates of the Nuts to the 26th and 31st of July. Propagation. NUTS never ought to be propagated by sowing the seeds of any of the sorts enumerated in the above list ; but by layers, at any time during the winter or early part of the spring, before the plants begin to open their buds. If the laying of them down has been properly performed, the layers will be well rooted by the end of the year, when they should be taken up, and planted out in the nursery rows three feet apart, and a foot from each other in the rows. Previously to their being planted, they should be pruned, leaving only one, and that the best shoot, shortening it to a foot or eighteen inches, ac |