All varieties with husks extending beyond the nut 
with fringed edges are filberts, Solile those with 
husks shar ter aa the nuts are hazels from the old 
Anglo-Saxon word haesel, a hood or bonnet. The 
| a FILBERT BRANCH IN BLOSSOM 
parentage, size, form, or quality of nut is not to be 
considered in this qualification, for when the nuts 
are ripe and fallen from the husk, there is nothing 
left to distinguish the hazel from the filberts.” 
The filbert (corylus) is a deciduous tree or 
shrub of which the fruit is a nut enclosed in a leafy 
lacinated calyx cup or husk. It blooms before the 
leaves appear in the spring. 
The male flowers are visible early in the au- 
tumn and appear in cylindrical catkins which, in the 
Pacific Northwest, remain on the trees till the fol- 
lowing months of January or February before they 
fully develop or scatter their pollen. 
