ROYAL FILBERTS 
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. Quaarenburg of Vancouver, 
Washington, beloved by all who knew. him, suggested 
the name Royal for this wonderful nut. 
In order to better appreciate Royal, we are comparing 
it to Barcelona, the most planted of all varieties in 
America. Barcelona has been a profitable filbert to 
grow until the heavy importation of filbert nuts from 
Europe in the winter of 1946-47. The importations this 
past winter were somewhat smaller and the price of 
our local filberts was somewhat higher. Germany was 
a heavy user of European filberts before the war. The 
Marshall plan will probably result in many tons of 
European filberts being shipped to Germany and other 
European countries that are now unable to purchase 
filberts. This should all help to remove ruinous compe- 
tition to our local filberts. 
Barcelona has long been considered as the best and 
most profitable of filberts. It will continue to be a profit- 
able variety to grow. It has been “‘tops’’ since Brokke, 
Lima, Powell, Stump, Dorris, Quaarenberg, and Prince 
and a number of other pioneer growers planted filberts 
40 years or more ago. We have thousands of fine 
Barcelona trees to sell but we have far more praise for 
Royal. We shall use Barcelona for comparison purposes. 
Barcelona has never been noted for its large size nuts, 
in fact, the medium grade had a higher percentage than 
than the large grade. As the trees increased in age the 
nut sizes became smaller. Barcelonas in the season of 
1946 had .76 of 1% of jumbo grade nuts. In the 1947 
season the sellers of filbert nuts reduced the size of each 
grade. This increased the percentage of nuts in the 
larger grades. In fact, Barcelona jumped from .76 of 1% 
jumbos in 1946 to 7% in 1947. How many jumbos did 
Royal have in 1946? Our figures show that it had 62.8% 
against .76 of 1% Barcelona. What happened to Royal 
in 1947 due to the reduced size of the grades? Royal 
graded out 39.94%, a considerable drop from the previ- 
ous year of 62.8% jumbo. That was a drop of 22.86% in 
the jumbo grade. This drop in Jumbos was more than 
made up in a decided jump in the Super Jumbo grade. 
The Super Jumbo grade of Royal jumped to 54.61% or 
an increase of 32.71%. Barcelona is conspicuous by its 
absence in the Super Jumbo grade. As you well know, 
the biggest profits are made in the larger grades. And 
the growers of Royals had a total of 94.55% in Super 
Jumbo and Jumbo grades in 1947. 
