filbert

• “The cob nut, as they call the filbert, is very common there, grown in hedges.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950

• “The elder and the berberry will grow anywhere, and require no particular care in their culture; the filbert is only a variety of the common hazel, and both are generally grown on the borders of walks, where they are planted from five to ten feet apart, according as they are to be trained upright or spreading.”

  The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

• “A nut having a husk which extended and came together beyond the end of the nut was called filbert, meaning beard.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914

• “Another brush that has recently come into fashion is called a filbert shape (Class D) by the makers.”

  The Practice and Science of Drawing

• “The filbert is the second highest in food value and I believe it is a nut adapted for a wider range of soils and climates in the North than any other nut.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922

• “In connection with our own hazel one would naturally think of the filbert, which is a European relative.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919

• “Happily, though, we came in good season for the green filbert, which is gathered in the fall of the year, being known then as the”

  Europe Revised

• “The European filbert which is grown so successfully in Oregon and”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950

• “The name "filbert" is a corruption of "full beard" and is properly applied only to those nuts in which the husk extends beyond the nut.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915

• “The pecan, the Japanese walnut, European hazel or more popularly called the "filbert" have all been given limited trials at various times.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919

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