" C," Villa Nova, Pa., says: " Can you give me information in regard to an English hazelnut tree or trees. The owner complains of their never having borne, but this year they have quite a quantity on. He got them from a tree which he thinks came over from England, and he says bore quantities of nuts, and wants to know why his do not. They are in quite a clump, some of 15 to 20 feet high, and seem perfectly healthy. Would summer pruning do them good, or is it the fault of imperfect fertilization?"

[The failure of the hazel-nut to perfect seed some seasons in America, is due to imperfect fertilization. A few warm days in winter, will bring forward the male flowers (catkins), and they thus mature, often many weeks before the minute female flowers are ready to receive the pollen. When the latter is in bloom, there is nothing to fertilize them with. This season, it is a matter of record, that the male and female flowers bloomed simultaneously; hence the full crop. On the writer's grounds, trees are loaded that had not a nut for two years before. This fact has been noted years ago, and is referred to in a paper in the transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society. The suggestion is there made, that when this difference in time occurs, male flowering branches at maturity may be wrapped in paper, kept dry, and when the female flowers appear, be hung in and among the trees. Then a crop of nuts follows. - Ed. G. M].