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 and produces the flowers and fruit from the sides of the branches, being male and female, flowers separate, without petals; the males in long yellowish amentums, in Winter, and the females in close-fitting clusters, in the Spring, succeeded by the clutters of Nuts, inclosed each in its torn calix or cup, ripening in August and September.

The Common Wood Nut Trees grow in vast abundance in our woods and hedges, and are sometimes admitted in Gardens, &c. for variety.

But the other larger sorts, being improved varieties, are cultivated more abundantly in gardens and orchards, but the Filbert most of all, for the goodness