. The American fruit culturist. Figs. 583 and 584.—Native Forms ofHazelnuts. Fig 585 — Istrian (animported nut). nuts are usually so small that they rarely appear in imported filbert has complete possession, and until some NUTS. 445 method of overcoming the difficulty of its culture in the UnitedStates is discovered, we are likely to be dependent uponforeign growths for supplies of this nut. The bushes are easy of cultivation and will often apparentlyflourish, but they fail to bear fruit and the bushes are liable toa disease which eventually kills them. The late Mr. N. had
. The American fruit culturist. Figs. 583 and 584.—Native Forms ofHazelnuts. Fig 585 — Istrian (animported nut). nuts are usually so small that they rarely appear in imported filbert has complete possession, and until some NUTS. 445 method of overcoming the difficulty of its culture in the UnitedStates is discovered, we are likely to be dependent uponforeign growths for supplies of this nut. The bushes are easy of cultivation and will often apparentlyflourish, but they fail to bear fruit and the bushes are liable toa disease which eventually kills them. The late Mr. N. had probably more experience in growing filberts thanany other man in America, and his recent book on Nut Cul-ture gives in detail his experiments and failures. In the States west of the Rocky Mountains the hazel be-comes a tree of fifty or sixty feet, and is said to bear largecrops. The following description of the propagation, etc., of thefilbert is taken from Nut Culture in the United States: Propagation.—Propagation is ef
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