. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1062. Characteristic growth of the Pignut Hickory. Hicoria glabra. reticulate ; kernel bitter. Quebec to Minn,, south to Fla. and Tex. 7:340-41. Em. valuable park tree, with handsome, rather broad head, growing in cult, more rapidly than other 1063. Hicoria glabra, var. microcarpa—the fa
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1062. Characteristic growth of the Pignut Hickory. Hicoria glabra. reticulate ; kernel bitter. Quebec to Minn,, south to Fla. and Tex. 7:340-41. Em. valuable park tree, with handsome, rather broad head, growing in cult, more rapidly than other 1063. Hicoria glabra, var. microcarpa—the false Shagbark. AA. Scales of buds imbricate, more than 6: fr. not or slightly winged at the sutures: nut iisually thick-shelled, 4-celled below: Ifts. S-9, not fal- cate,the uppermost larger and generally obovate. B. Buds small, '%~}^in. long: husk thin: nut slightly or not angled, gl&.'bra,, Britt. (Caryaporchia,'Nutt.). Pignut. Figs. 1061, 1062. Tree, occasionally to 120 ft., with usually dark gray iissured bark and slender, glabrous branch- lets : Ifts. 3-7, almost sessile, oblong to obloug-lanceo- late, long-acuminate, sharply serrate, almost glabrous, 3-6 in. long: fr. usually ovoid or obovate, the sutures usually slightly winged toward the apex and the husk splitting mostly only half way to the base; nut usually brownish, not angled ; kernel mostly astringent. 7:352-53. 11:386-7. 12, very hand- some park tree, with rather narrow-oblong head and slender, often pendulous branch- lets, especially in the following var. A very variable tree, and the following varieties are considered by some botanists as dis- tinct species. Var. raicroc4rpa, Trel. (Carya micro- cdrpa, Nutt.). Figs. 1063-6. iSark more or less shaggy: Ifts. quite glabrous, often somewhat broader: fr. subglobose ; husk splitting nearly to the base; nut grayish or whitish, angled, rather thin - shelled, often broader than long ; kernel sweet. From Quebec to Mich., south to Fla. 11
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