H. L. PEARCY NURSERY CO. 
Route 2, Box 190 
SALEM, OREGON 
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ROYAL FILBERTS 
In order to better appreciate Royal, we are making certain com- 
parisons with a variety that you are familiar with, Barcelona. 
Barcelona has been a profitable filbert to grow until the great influx 
of filbert nuts from southern Europe in the winter of 1946-1947. Germany 
formerly consumed most of the European filbert crop. We can expect 
heavy importations of filbert nuts from Europe until Germany again 
becomes a customer for those nuts. Until that time, we can expect low 
prices unless our government furnishes some protection to our local 
filbert growers. While good profits have been made with Barcelona, 
and we have thousands of Barcelona trees for sale, we have far more 
praise for Royal. However we will use Barcelona as a standard for 
comparison purposes. 
Barcelona has long been considered as the best and most profitable 
of filberts. It has been “tops” since Brokke, Lima, Powell, Stump, Dorris, 
Quarrenburg, Prince and a number of other pioneer growers planted 
filberts 40 or more years ago. 
Barcelona has never been noted for large sized nuts and as the 
orchards become older, the size of the nuts produced become smaller. 
The ‘sellers of nuts have a jumbo grade. Barcelona had less than 1% 
of jumbo grade in 1946. Not too good business to advertise something 
that you do not have to sell, so this year, 1947-48, the sellers of nuts 
have reduced the size of each grade so as to have more jumbos. But 
will that set well with the consumer? The growers of Royals are putting 
a real jumbo on the market, and, yes, a super jumbo as well, better 
than 80% of all Royals are Super Jumbo and Jumbo. 
TIME MARCHES ON 
About 25 years ago the original seedling which was later named 
Royal, was growing at Stayton, Oregon. The grower of this tree was the 
late Mr. E. Roy, a retired jeweler. The late A. A. Quarrenburg of Van- 
couver, Washington, beloved by all who knew him, suggested the name 
Royal for this wonderful nut. 
Saying that Royal is the best filbert grown might be just a matter 
of personal opinion. So herein are presented some figures. After studying 
