And after Mr. Tisbett had slung his hair trunk on the rack, Mr. Filbert stepped gently into the stage-coach.
The genus Malope closely resembles the Mallow; except that the petals are not wedge-shaped, and that it has a still larger calyx, the long sepals of which shroud the capsule as the involucre of the filbert does the nut.
Filbert nuts required for keeping must be gathered only when quite ripe; they may then be preserved in dry sand, or, after drying, by packing with a sprinkling of salt in sound casks or new flower-pots.
The filbert is economically grown on the borders of plantations or orchards, or in open spots in woods.
By the time the ship had well got her nose down the coast of Spain, Miss Filbert had created her atmosphere, and moved about in it from end to end of the quarter-deck.
Everything about Laura Filbert had its abnormal side, none the less obvious because it was inward, and invisible.
He restored the pink sheet to its pink envelope, and both to his breast-pocket, while she poured out the other cup, but Miss Filbert was still present with them.
He stood looking back precisely where Laura Filbert had stood, but the sun was gone.
Captain Filbert remembered the crucifix afterward with a feeling almost intense, also some silver-backed brushes on the toilet-table.
The door had almost closed upon Captain Filbert when Alicia made something like a dash at an object about to elude her.
Alicia hastened to "lend" her to the fullest extent, and she spent hours with Miss Filbert contriving and arranging, a kind of conductor of her mistress's beneficence.
Mr. Lindsay and Miss Laura Filbert of the Salvation Army.
Alicia returned with vehemence, and then as Captain Filbert stared, half comprehending, "Don't you care?
Miss Filbert made the conventional effort to rise, but it came to nothing, or to a mere embarrassed accent of their greeting.
By a sudden inclination Alicia began the story of Laura Filberton her knees at Lindsay's door.
In the intervals between the exercises Miss Filbert came and went in the cabin of three young Salvationists of her own sex.
Fifteen minutes before the appointed time Louis Mitchell was fidgeting nervously outside the Filbert Street cold-water "walk-up" known as Geraldine Manor, wondering if Miss Dunlap would notice his clothes.
I could have wished the filberthad looked more like a filbert and less like a melon; but the general effect, I flattered myself, was excellent.
There are two features connected with the filbert that we ought to discuss right here.
Mr. Reed: This slide shows a filbert we will probably be able to see this afternoon.
To the right, at the corner of Filbert Street, is the Masonic Temple, which is adjoined by the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the north side of the square, at the corner of Broad Street and Filbert Street, is the Masonic Temple, a huge granite structure with a tower two hundred and fifty feet high and an elaborately carved Norman porch.
Mrs. Filbert was a motherly soul, and set Henry at his ease at once when she took him to the little bedroom he was to share with one of her sons, a lad about his own age.
He was the permanent lodger by whom good Mrs. Filbert set much store.
The hickory, the pecan, the butternut, the filbert and the piñon are all capable of producing equal or greater results.
At present the nurseries cannot supply the demand for filbert plants, owing to the limited number of mother plants in the northwest.
There is no reason why the filbertshould not be grown more extensively even though it is affected by blight or canker.
Filbert and walnut are the only nut trees grown commercially to any extent in the nurseries of the northwest.
Afterwards the filbert planting came up and he worked with Mr. Vollertson, who was experienced in this work in Germany.
While not really trees the filbert sometimes reaches a height of 5 ft.
I saw last week the report of a crop in Rochester, New York, on five-year old filbertbushes that had been pronounced as good as imported nuts in quality and certainly were in size, and finer in coloring.
A fine old filbert walk extends far away towards the orchard: the branches meet overhead.
I cannot understand why filbert walks are not planted by our modern capitalists, who make nothing of spending a thousand pounds in forcing-houses.
Several of our members have taken a little interest in the question of the hazel-filbert family.
The filbert and the almond we hope to cover briefly before adjourning.
But this season my old enemy, the filbert blight, appeared again, and branches and main stems began to blacken and the leaves to wither.
The third spring I laid out about one acre for a specimenfilbert orchard, and after the ground had been thoroughly prepared, the plants were set ten feet apart in the row, and twelve between the rows.
Almost any good soil that is rich enough to produce a good crop of corn, and is not submerged in winter, will answer for the filbert in this country.
European varieties of the filbert thrive best in what may be termed a rich loam, with a dry subsoil.
The catkins are tender and become winterkilled in our Northern States, but if the pistillate flowers are fertilized by pollen from some more hardy plant, this purple-leaved filbert is exceedingly prolific.
This is the large round hazel or filbert so largely imported for the trade in this country.
A single bush of the Spanish filbert in my garden has produced a half-bushel annually.
Filbert declared that they must begin their retreat at once, as they had but one day's supply of food left, while the storm might burst upon them again at any minute and continue indefinitely.
Filbert removed the loosened snow to the back of the cave, where they packed it as closely as possible.
Filbert was jubilant over this feat, which he said had never before been accomplished, and complimented the lad in flattering terms upon the skilful patience that had led to it.
Filbert discovered this knowledge on the part of his young interpreter, he intrusted him with the camera, and never had the lad devoted himself to anything with such enthusiasm as he now did to the capturing of views.
At any rate, be sure to call on Monsieur Filbert at the hotel this afternoon.
Filbert was to carry a barometer, a thermometer, a compass, and a collecting-case.
Filbert wished the boys to spend the night with him at the hotel, but Alaric was still so sore over his morning's experience that he begged to be excused.
Filbert had insisted that all the provisions should be divided among all the packs, as a precaution against just such an emergency as had arisen.
Filbert and the Indian passed back over that very place in anxious search of their young companions, they could neither see nor hear aught to tell them of what had happened.
Filbert was striking a match in order to look at his watch.
Filbert and Alaric to disturb him in the least, though by it the whole future course of his life was to be changed.
Filbert talked incessantly with his new-found interpreter, and Alaric seemed almost as excited as he.
Filbert had set his heart must be given up, and he was in despair.
Filbert decided to make a start towards it on the morrow, they hailed the announcement with joy.
The world's my filbert which with my crackers I will open.
His features were neatly moulded and extremely delicate; his hands well shaped and narrow, whilst his fingers, long and tapering, were crowned with pellucid filbert nails.
He particularly noticed the nails, which, though filbert in shape, were excessively long and dirty.
He told me what he believed could be done and what had been done in filbert culture where he had been until about twenty years of age, having worked in a nursery from the time he had been able to do manual labor.
But there have been a number of filbert plantings made the last few years where that blight has not appeared at all.
They were one and all, I think I can say, appalled when I told them that there was a nursery in New York State producing filbert plants and filbert nuts.
You plant your walnut trees or your filbert trees along that stream, and you will have magnificent results.
The subject of the filbert was discussed and I found a very great interest on the subject.
In different meetings of this association that I have attended and in correspondence with the officers of the association, filbert culture in this country has been referred to as still in the experimental stage.
Now it can be consistently considered that I have an ax to grind as I am producing filbert plants for sale, but I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that it is not with this thought in mind that I make these references.
It seems to me, too, that the filbert is one of the best nut producing plants for use here in the North.
As a specific instance I can cite a prominent doctor in Louisville, Kentucky, who some years ago got some plants from us and some filbert plants from some other nursery.
I can't make myself believe that the matter of blight in filbertculture in this country is a serious menace.
I believe that the same principle applies to the development of filbert nurseries as to any phase of life, that eternal vigilance is the price of safety.
Any one wanting to plant filberts must not ask what is the best filbert and plant one.
I will therefore not dwell on the subject of pruning just now, but will leave the propagating and growing of the hazel or filbert-plants in the nursery and try to make a few remarks about the hazel or filbert orchard.
In the Northwest, the filbert is receiving intensive attention at the hands of a considerable number of skilled horticulturists.
Returning to the East, we have before us a picture of an Italian Red filbert tree in the orchard of Messrs.
I will leave this subject now and call attention to the hazel or filbert orchard.
Let us hope that not all of these opportunities and chances offered us have passed unobserved, but that some of those perplexed questions of filbert or hazel-nut growing in the east have been solved.
Van Deman in which the latter urged the experimental planting of the filbert in the Northwest.
These are thefilbert of the Northwest and the Eastern black walnut.
This is a view of the first filbert orchard planted in the Northwest.
Senator McNary of Oregon thought so well of the beauty of the filbert that he induced his brother to plant several trees on his lawn in the city of Salem.
It is perhaps the largestfilbert tree in the United States.
A part of the filbert and cob-nut crop is picked green in September, as they do well for dessert, though their kernels are not large or firm, and it pays to sell them green, as they weigh more heavily.
From the small button or filbert onion, deprived of the outer coloured skin, and either at once put into bottles and covered with strong white pickling vinegar, or previously steeped for a day or two in strong brine or alum water.
From this, after crushing or bruising the lumps with a piece of wood, all stones of a larger size than that of a filbert may be picked out, and their proportion to the whole quantity duly registered.
The slides showed various methods of propagating the filbert by layering, and of propagating more difficult species by inarching.
Ward reports an average crop of 200 nuts to each two-year-old filbert tree in his four-acre planting this season.
It is probable also, that the planting of the European filbert can be recommended under conditions of intelligent care.
Later on, the entire tops of many of the older-bearing filbert trees succumbed.
To add at least thirty acres to my present filbert plantings this year is my desire.
He states that all of his 31 varieties of filbert trees, except one, have fairly good nut crops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filbert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
