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THE FELIX GILLET NURSERY 
NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA 
i 
FILBERT OR HAZEL NUT 
At Nevada City, Calif., these 
Filbert Trees produce well on 
this ledge. 
A 
Crop 
That 
Pays 
The 
Grower 
The filbert is one of the most profitable trees you can plant. It is easily grown, has 
no harmful insect enemies, requires no spraying, thinning or propping. It stands heavy 
frosts, bears young and continuously, living to great age. It bears well as a tree Or a 
bush and makes splendid profit producing wind breaks. It is a fine ornamental. The 
nuts find a ready market. Yet millions of pounds have to be imported in order to 
supply the American demand, because our growers have overlooked this profitable crop. 
0 MARKET PROSPECTS 
•I A carefull investigation will show that various forces are at work in the interest of 
all nut growers. Especially is this true of the filbert. 
1st. No overproduction of this crop exists in America. Importations to supply the 
demand have been made for years. 
2nd. Bakers’ cakes and confectionery, particularly nickel candy bars, use enormous 
quantities of filberts the year around. The manufacturers of these goods push 
your product for you. 
3rd. Thousands of stores, both small and large, sell 5 and 10c bags of salted filberts 
every day in the year. 
4th. The North Pacific Nut Growers’ Cooperative Association that handles all filberts 
grown in the northwest (we are informed that any California filbert grower can 
join this ably managed association) are putting out roasted salted filberts in a 
Vita-Pack for household use and they report encouraging sales. This Coop, has 
sold every filbert produced by its growers during the past three trying years, at 
satisfactory profits ; an outstanding achievement in times like these when such 
luxuries might be expected to remain unsold. Few if any farm products can 
approach this record. 
5th. And by no means least is the mantle of protection that the United States Gov¬ 
ernment has thrown over nut growers. While great economists, statesmen, 
bankers and all of us are trying to devise some means of saving wheat, 
corn and cotton growers from ruin, a protective tariff already on the books 
levies 5c per pound on unshelled and 10c per pound on shelled filberts, which 
permits you to grow this nut profitably. Furthermore the United States 
Department of Agriculture made a restrictive order in 1929 against importation 
of wormy, mouldy or rancid filberts, walnuts, almonds and chestnuts. This 
serves to keep out of this country low price, market breaking nuts and protects 
a fair price to the grower in this country. 
6th. Filberts will keep in ordinary storage two years without deteriorating if nec¬ 
essary. 
7th. The highly profitable BARCELONA variety is well known under that name 
to the trade. 90% of Oregons’ production is this variety. 
Our trees, are all propagated from the ORIGINAL MOTHER TREE WHICH STILL STANDS ON OUR 
GROUNDS. Our prices for these trees are very reasonable. When you make comparison, keep quality 
and not price in mind. YOU CANNOT GET BETTER TREES THAN OURS. 
