One fertilizing tree will do, but it is better to have more than one because sometimes it might turn out that the staminate catkinscame a few days too early or too late to fertilize the nut.
Thus the staminate catkins sometimes fall before the pistillates form, and naturally there is no pollination and no crop.
Work may be continued even after the catkins are out and the leaves half grown.
I have found single catkins or clusters of all numbers from two to seventy or more.
Staminate catkins are in crowded clusters, capitate or elongate (figs.
The catkins differ much in size, the largest being found among the Hard Pines.
Although it had catkins for several seasons, not until the past season did it produce, and then only one lone nut.
Snyder of Iowa says on page 47, "The catkins of Winkler always come through the winter bright and the variety can be depended upon to bear without other varieties near for cross-pollination.
The catkins were mostly killed and the pistillate bloom was delayed in growth upon the new wood until most of it came too late for even such pollination as was so sparingly available.
I can scent the catkins plainly, being so close, and as I came here I could detect the hazel and sassafras all right.
This explains why peach fruit buds and the catkins of the European filbert are often killed in the East during the winter.
Rush hazel that set fruit last year with the help of a bouquet of native [West Tennessee] catkins set only 5 nuts this year "on its own.
Red Lambert, which had the hardiest catkins of any variety of C.
Winterkilling of catkinswere recorded on the selections for several years.
Winter injury of catkins was nearly always very high in crosses between varieties of Corylus Avellana.
Craig, Brag and Comet, the only ones which have borne staminate flowers do not seem too hardy in the catkins however.
In early April the percentage of winter-killed catkins was recorded by estimate.
Harold Blake reports that his black walnuts are doing well, but a late spring frost killed the catkins on the Cosford, Medium Long and Italian Red filberts.
To ship the pollen it is necessary only to wrap small branches bearing the catkins in oiled paper and mail to me, preferably by air mail.
The policy followed has been not to discard a plant because it bears small nuts or no nuts at all, because such trees may bear hardy catkinsthat live through the winter.
In considering the productiveness and hardiness of the catkins of the seedlings resulting from the different crosses the data have been assembled in Tables 2 to 5, each table containing the summarized records for different plantings.
It has had many staminate catkins for several years.
Bixby and Buchanan planted in the spring of 1939: While the plants did very well, most of the catkins invariably were winter-killed, so I was obliged to pull them up.
The flowers appear with the leaves, the staminate are in hairy catkins 2-3 inches long, the pistillate are sessile in axils of the leaves.
The flowers of the alders are in catkins and among the earliest in the spring.
The flowers are of two kinds on the same tree; the staminate in drooping catkinswhich form the previous summer, the pistillate, in erect catkins on the newly formed twigs.
The catkinsof the staminate flowers are about 2 inches long; the spikes of the pistillate flowers are about half as long and stand on short stalks.
The flowers are in catkins and appear before the leaves begin to expand.
The staminate and pistillate flowers are on the same tree, the former in long yellowish-green drooping catkins and the latter are short with red-fringed stigmas.
The two kinds are borne on separate trees, the staminate catkins are about 2 inches long, but the seed-producing flowers form a long slender cluster 4 inches in length.
He had involuntarily turned with her to walk back to her house on the way he had come, and he asked her if he might not carry her catkins for her.
Soon after this it is quite easy to find the incipient female alder-bloom of the season to come, and the rudimentary golden catkins of the next year's sallow.
The hazel puts forth its infant catkins as early as September, while the rich brown clusters of the same season are but ripening, and the autumn yellow of the leaves is in the distance.
The dark red anthers make the myriads of catkins look like elongated strawberries.
Illustration: Currant Gall of the catkins of the Oak, produced by Cynips quercus pedunculi?
But the name of currant-gall seems still more appropriate to an excrescence which grows on the catkins of the oak, giving them very much the appearance of a straggling branch of currants or bird-cherries.
In many parts of Europe this is held to be desirable for its nuts, but in Connecticut it is prone to flower so early in the season that the elongated male catkins are caught by frost.
Several other varieties have set full of catkinsin the nursery row but have not developed any pistillate blossoms.
Catkins form upon all hazels in the fall, but these do not really blossom until springtime.
I have seen elongated catkins in a warm week at the end of February.
Catkins cylindric, with leafy bracts at base, and apparently 1 stamen to each flower (the filaments are united).
Fertile catkins and cones on the end of last year's branchlets.
Fertile catkins rounded, of 3 to 6 fleshy, coalescent scales, forming in fruit a bluish-black berry with a whitish bloom, but found on only a portion of the plants.
Flowers staminate and pistillate on separate trees (dioecious), in elongated catkins in early spring.
Catkins appearing with or before the leaves along the sides of the stem; stamens 2; scales dark or black, hairy, persistent.
Fruit consists of catkins of small pods with numerous seeds having silky down at one end.
Catkins of flowers long and loose, on a peduncle; stamens usually 2; stigmas nearly sessile, thick, and recurved.
When cones orcatkins hang downward, they are pendent.
Fertile catkins and cones erect on the upper side of the spreading branches.
Catkins large, oval, numerous, almost sessile, blooming much before the leaves appear, and of a showy yellow color.
Fertile catkins of few, overlapping scales fixed by the base; at maturity, dry and spreading.
For instance, little bunches of catkins are blessed and given away in the churches on Palm Sunday, and are carefully preserved by the country-folk till harvest time.
In winter the distant copse seemed black; now it appears of a dull reddish brown from the innumerable catkins and buds.
The delicate sprays of the birch are fringed with them, the aspen has a load of brown, there are green catkins on the bare hazel boughs, and the willows have white 'pussy-cats.
In some parts of the country catkins are called lambstails, because they hang down just like the flabby little tails of the Spring lambs.
Earlier than this we look for catkins on the hazel trees.
When the crimson threads appear in the scaly buds the staminate catkins are lengthening, and soon the high wind shakes the golden pollen over all the copse.
The catkins of the hazelbrush are edged with white.
Towards the last of February the catkins of the pussy willows and the aspens are creeping from beneath their budscales to meet the goddess of spring half way, and every warm day in March coaxes them a little farther.
With the small amount of soil which they make use of, they mix the leaves and spines of the fir, and the catkins of the pine.
On the other hand, the yellow ants, which prefer for their materials the prickles and catkins of the pines, appear to prosper.
The next spring, prior to the blooming of the chestnut-trees, they emerge from the ground and soon thereafter collect in large numbers on the male catkins of the chestnuts.
Here catkins and nuts were found on the same branch, and a photograph was made).
Sterile catkins single or often several from the same lateral scaly bud, filiform and hanging in all our species.
Sterile flowers in long and simple lateral catkins from the wood of the preceding year; the calyx adherent to the entire bracts or scales, unequally 3--6-cleft.
Only one sort of flowers in catkins or catkin-like heads.
Flowers developed in spring with the leaves; the sterile from catkins which have remained naked over winter; while the fertile have been enclosed in a scaly bud; fruit with a conspicuous thin wing, as in Birch.
Flowers developed in earliest spring, before the leaves, from mostly clustered catkins which (of both sorts) were formed the foregoing summer and have remained naked over winter; fruit wingless or with a narrow coriaceous margin.
The Barcelona and Du Chilly are thickly set with catkins this fall, and by all indications there will be a very nice crop next summer.
But I haven't been so fortunate as to get it to bear, although it throws out catkins in the spring.
The trees are budding in buds of rosy hue, the willow branches are decked with silvery catkins powdered with gold.
I kept these undevelopedcatkins that I had received in a cold dark place.
I believe the chestnut is a better money nut here than the pecan, as natives here bear very sparsely and irregularly although the catkins or male part usually come out in great profusion.
I got some hazel catkins this spring that were elongating.
The catkins contain some substance which when added to the germination media inhibits pollen germination and causes abnormal types of germination.
Evidently the staminate catkins necessary for pollen production are somewhat slower in appearing.
As soon as a majority of the catkins began to shed their pollen or to absciss their full developed anthers, the catkins were removed and dried on a sheet of smooth paper at room temperature until the pollen was shed.
These two bushes have borne only one crop of nuts, although they blossom freely, and the catkins are about as hardy as anything in the filbert line that I have seen.
The experiment was repeated by forcing the catkins at 10° C.
The effect of temperature and humidity during forcing on the viability of the pollen Pollen shed from catkins forced in a warm, dry room (about 75° F.
Two mature catkins plus remnants of their unshed pollen were ground in a mortar with a small amount of water in clear quartz sand.
He said there were no catkins on the little trees, which accounts for the failure of his crop.
And he did not know that the trees would produce the catkins in a year or so and remedy the failures.
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