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THE NOOKSACK FILBERT 
About 1886 Peter Gillies, an Englishman settled near'^Nooksack, 
Washington. Remembering the good Filbert of his native land, and 
noting a similarity of climate here, he had his relatives “back home” 
in County Kent, England, send him some of his favorite nuts. He 
planted them and as a result had about a half aScre of Filbert bushes 
in orchard form. These, having been grown from' nuts were all seed¬ 
lings, and on that account not true to type, most of them bearing 
very small nuts. 
In 1924 when we made our first planting of Filberts tlhere were 
only three bushes of the orig^iiial orchard left. One of these bushes, 
we noted, was producing a fine looking nut of good flavor and size 
and with a thin shell. Taking a chance that it might prove valu¬ 
able we set out 28 sprouts from this choice bush in our first Com¬ 
mercial planting. Their good behavior ever since, hardiness of tree, 
heavy bearing habits, and the fact that it has proved to be a first 
class pollenizer for DuChilly, have recommended it so higihly that 
now it is considered our very best variety. This is attested by our 
present practice of setting two Nooksack trees to one DuChilly, with 
a sprinkling of Alpha. We have 23 acres of young orchards set in 
this way. The tree growth is much the same as the DuChilly and 
we have never lost a tree. 
The nuts are mostly self husking, are about the same size as 
DuChilly, but more nearly round with no crease in the side. They 
have the same thinness of shell and the meats weiigh out about the 
same number of ounces to the pound. The DuChilly is a fair ipoll- 
enizer for the Nooksack and this, plus the Alpha and Gasoway do 
the trick very well indeed. Four, three and two year trees are 
available from 
CEDARBROOK NUT FARM 
NOOKSACK, WASHINGTON. 
