Slim, cylindrical flower cluster with inconspicuous or no petals.
1The latter variety is catkin hardy and should be in every planting.
2On the day after her arrival, she essayed to worry the haughty catkin.
3Look at that painted butterfly swinging on the honey-laden catkin there.
4Hardiness of catkin also varied greatly and rather consistently from year to year.
5Wood injury, catkin injury, and pistil injury will be treated separately.
6In the fourth group are those with less than 20 per cent of catkin injury.
7Winter killing of the wood has not been as extensive nor as serious as catkin killing.
8Not a single live catkin was found in the spring on the 66 filbert varieties in this orchard.
9Weather conditions influenced catkin killing greatly.
10I am off with the little wool-gatherers, to see what thorn and brier and fern-stalk and willow-catkin will give me.
11The Taylor every year sets a bunch of young nutlets, but I have never yet seen a catkin on it.
12In a normally cold winter catkin killing as a rule is not very serious, except on a few tender varieties.
13One chinchilla catkin gone!
14I have seen good ones made of peanuts, with the features inked on, and a very young black birch catkin for tail.
15The subtle, pungent, ravishing odours on the wind, of unfolding leaves, ice-water washed plants, and catkin pollen, were an elixir to humanity.
16In winter the light could be seen on the other side; now catkin, bud, and opening leaf have thickened and check the view.