standardized Filbert culture into two varieties— 
the Du Chilly and the Barcelona, and for the bene- 
fit of present and prospective Filbert growers Mr. 
Quarnberg has written the following treatise. We 
hope it will not only afford all required information 
and direction in regard to this interesting subject, 
but will point the way to success and independence 
for the many who love Nature, love to watch the 
miracles the soil will produce, and who long for a 
full and complete life that will round itself out in 
peace and plenty for future years. 
Alderwood Manor is ideally 
Alderwood | situated, not only with regard to 
Manor its physical advantages for the 
Rurali cultivation of Filberts, but be- 
Uralizes cause of its location within such 
the easy reach of a metropolitan cen- 
City ter. Only a matter of minutes 
from the center of Seattle, Al- 
derwood Manor provides a home 
spot of unique attractiveness, with electric lights, 
telephones and the comforts of the city, yet with 
the beauty and charm of the country. The orna- 
mention and utility of the country place, we believe, 
cannot be promoted to greater advantage than by 
the cultivation of the Filbert tree. 
For the man who wants the freedom, the 
health, the wholesome surroundings of the country 
for himself and his family, for the man who real- 
izes that it is not the amount of land he possesses 
but the utilization of that land, Alderwood Manor 
and Filbert culture, under the expert guidance and 
