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May be preserved by storing them in earthenware glazed jars with lids, like table salt jars, only larger. Mons. H. C. a Nottingham gentleman, who is famous for his recherche dinner parties, has filberts and chestnuts when no one else can procure them. They are sweet, rich, and full of kernel as well as fine The orchard was the store- house, where these jars where treasured, some i J feet under the surface soil. I was therefore professionally interested, for in those days I was gathering knowledge ; I have since seen it practised in France and Germany, as well as the storing of green French beans and scarlet runners salted, in a similar manner. flavoured. His wife, a most charming hostess, let me into the secret some fourteen years ago.