FILBERT OB HAZELNUT. 



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while those with husks shorter than the nuts (Fig. 38) 

 are hazels, from the old Anglo-Saxon word, hcesel, a 

 hood or bonnet. The parentage, size, form or quality 

 of the nut, is not to be considered in this classification, 

 for when the nuts are ripe and fallen from the husks, 



FIG. 37. LARGE FILBERT. 



there is nothing left to distinguish the hazelnuts from 

 filberts, unless a person is sufficiently familiar with a 

 variety to know to which group it belongs. In Prance 

 these nuts are known under the general name of Noysette; 

 while in Germany it is Haselnuss ; in Holland Hazel- 



