winterkilling

To overcome this shortcoming, I bend down and peg to the ground, in the late fall, a few slim shoots with dormant catkins, so that the snow, or some other mulching material supplied when there is insufficient snow, will cover and protect the catkins from winterkilling.

Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

Yields and winterkilling of filbert catkins, Orchard 16, 1935 1937,

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947