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risk involved without waiting for a number of years. Could not those 

 interested try the filbert? 



Dr. Zimmerman: I got some filbert scions from Dr. Deming three 

 years ago. I grafted them and this year those scions were just loaded. 

 I had the Du Chilly, the Barcelona and Cosford, and the one Dr. 

 Morris called the Boneybush. In the six years I have been at Pike- 

 town I had never before noticed the native nuts bearing. This year was 

 the first year also that the grafts had produced any nuts. Whether 

 they had pollinated each other or not I do not know. I planted some 

 other plants along the bank of a little creek and they are three years old 

 this year. The Barcelona was quite full and the Du Chilly had a few 

 on it. Out of the three-year-old plants the Boneybush was the only 

 one that really failed. 



Mr. Snyder: While we are on the subject of the filbert I want to 

 say I have tried out some 25 varieties in Iowa and I have found only 

 a few good for breeding ]iurposes. The Du Chilly, Barcelona and 

 Rush have been discarded. The Italian Red is the only one that stands 

 the winter well. It is self-sterile and with a number of others it has 

 been discarded in our planting's. I regard the filbert as being experi- 

 mental in our state and just something to have fun with. I do not think 

 it will ever be profitable there. I have some isolated plants of the 

 Winkler native hazel. The staminate blossoms have been removed, com- 

 pelling it to depend upon the Italian Red for pollen, as that is the only 

 other variety nearby. In the same patch I have a Rush tree, from 

 which I removed all its staminate blossoms, and compelled it also to 

 depend upon the Italian Red pollen. These varieties bloomed early in 

 March this past spring. We had some favorable weather. It was June 

 before the nutlets became visible, but they developed satisfactorily and 

 the bushes are now just loaded down with nuts. Hazels represent the 

 only real crop of nuts we have in our part of Iowa. 



