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book i. 2. But if you would make a grove for pleasure, plant them in fofTes,'**~v^** / a j- a y ar d distance, and cut them within half a foot of the earth, dressingthem for three or four springs and autumns, by only loosening the moulda little about their roots. Others there are who set the nuts by hand atone foot distance, to be transplanted the third year, at a yard asunder:But this work is not to be taken in hand so soon as the nuts fall, nor tillwinter be well advanced, because they are exceedingly obnoxious to thefrosts; nor will they sprout till the spring; besides, vermine are greatdevourers of them. Preserve them therefore moist, not mouldy, by layingthem in their own xhy leaves, or in sand, fill January.

Planlis edurse Coryli nascuntur- geo.rg. ii.

Hasels from sets and suckers take.

3 . From whence they thrive very well, the shoots being about thescantling of small wands and switches, or somewhat bigger, and such ashave drawn divers hairy twigs, which are by no means to be disbranched,no more than their roots, unlefs by a very sparing and discreet hand.Thus your coryletum, or copse of Hasels, being planted about autumn,may, as some practise it, be cut within three or four inches of the groundthe spring following, which the new cyon will suddenly repair in clusters,and tufts of fair poles of twenty, or sometimes thirty feet long: ButI rather should spare them till two or three years after, when they shallhave taken strong hold, and may be cut close to the very earth, theimprosperous and feeble ones especially. Thus are Filberts likewise tobe treated, both of them improved much by transplanting, but chiefly bygraffing, and it should be tried with Filberts, and even with Almonds.themselves, for more elegant experiments.

In the mean time, I do not confound the Filbert, Pontic, or Filbord,distinguished by its beard., with our foresters or bald Hasel-nuts, whichdoubtlefs we had from abroad, and bearing the names of Avelan, Avelin,as I find in some antient records and deeds in my custody, where myancestors names were written Avelan, alias Evelin, generally.

4. For the place; they above all affect cold, barren, dry, and sandygrounds: mountains, and even rocky soils produce, them 3 they prosperwhere quarries of freestone lie underneath, as at Haselbury in Wilts,