"Hazelnut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seedlings grew into a bushy tree ten or twelve feet high. For several years it bore a crop which, though meager, was composed of large, attractive nuts shaped like those of the common American hazel but very unlike the true Rush hazelnut. One year this tree began to fail and I tried to save it or propagate it by layering and sprouting seeds. Unfortunately it did not occur to me at that time to graft it to a wild hazel to perpetuate it. I still lament my oversight as the tree finally died and a very hardy ...
— Growing Nuts in the North • Carl Weschcke
... Chestnut weevil, Balaninus proboscideus Fabr. Lesser Chestnut weevil, B. rectus Say. Hickory nut or Pecan weevil, B. caryae Horn. Hazelnut weevil, B. obtusus Blanch. Common acorn weevil, B. quercus Horn. Mottled acorn weevil, B. nasicus Say. Straight-snouted acorn weevil, B. orthorhynchus Chittn. Sooty acorn weevil, B. baculi Chittn. Confused acorn ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various |
