. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. The Trees of Vermont 47. BUTTERNUT. I,eaf and fruit, x % known. For this purpose they should be gathered early in June and the clammy pubesence remov- ed by plunging them into boiling water and rubbing with a coarse cloth. The wood of the butternut is soft and not strong but takes a beautiful, dark polish and is used especially for interior finishings. Introduced sjtedes.—The black walnut is occasionally cultivated. It may be transplanted or grown directly from the nuts, and devel- ops rapidly into a beautiful tree, valuable for both
. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. The Trees of Vermont 47. BUTTERNUT. I,eaf and fruit, x % known. For this purpose they should be gathered early in June and the clammy pubesence remov- ed by plunging them into boiling water and rubbing with a coarse cloth. The wood of the butternut is soft and not strong but takes a beautiful, dark polish and is used especially for interior finishings. Introduced sjtedes.—The black walnut is occasionally cultivated. It may be transplanted or grown directly from the nuts, and devel- ops rapidly into a beautiful tree, valuable for both its nuts and wood. THE HICKORIES The hickories are stately trees, quite generally distributed throughout the United States. There are eight species, all peculiar to America, several of which produce edible nuts. Among the latter are the shellbark hickory in the north and the pecan in the south. The flowers, arranged in catkins of the two kinds, appear in late spring after the unfolding of the leaves. The wood of all these trees is heavy, tough and durable. It is used for axe handles, agricultural implements and in places where strength and elasticity are required it is almost unrivaled. The hickories are frequently but erroneously termed "walnuts," in the popular language of New England. The true walnuts of which the butternut and black walnut are the American representatives differ from the hickories, although they are closely related. Nut sweet and edible, bark shaggy, leaflets 5 (rarely 7) Shellbark Hickory Nut more or less bitter, not edible, bark close. Fruit globular, nut thin-shelled, leaflets 7-11 Bitternut Hickory Fruit pear-shaped, nut hard-shelled, leaflets 5-7 Pignut Hickory SHELLBARK HICKORY (SHAGBARK HICKORY, WHITE WALNUt). HicoHa OVattt (Mill.) Britton, Carya alba Nuttall. Two points alone are sufficient to distinguish the shellbark from other hickories ; its dark brown bark scaling off irregularly in long slender strips and its compound leaves rarel
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