. The American fruit culturist. Pig. 590.—Typical Thin-shell Shellbark. Pig. 5oo.—Oval. to be strictly practical, only the shellbark hickory will there-fore be treated of. Perhaps but one variety of this nut has been subjected tocultivation and offered for sale (Hales Paper-Shell). Allothers are the product of wild trees. And yet the differencesin the sizes of the nuts, the thickness of the shell, the quali-ties of the kernels, the cracking peculiarities, and the freenesswith which the meats may be extracted are very marked. While size undoubtedly has a large influence in the sellingof nuts, i
. The American fruit culturist. Pig. 590.—Typical Thin-shell Shellbark. Pig. 5oo.—Oval. to be strictly practical, only the shellbark hickory will there-fore be treated of. Perhaps but one variety of this nut has been subjected tocultivation and offered for sale (Hales Paper-Shell). Allothers are the product of wild trees. And yet the differencesin the sizes of the nuts, the thickness of the shell, the quali-ties of the kernels, the cracking peculiarities, and the freenesswith which the meats may be extracted are very marked. While size undoubtedly has a large influence in the sellingof nuts, it is well known to all who have had any intelligentexperience that comparatively small nuts have frequentlydisproportionately large and extremely high-flavored kernels. The slow growth of the shellbark has and will have a de-terrent effect upon its cultivation, and while a wild two-year-old will often be found four to five feet high, a trans- NUTS. 455 planted tree three or four years old seems to make almostno growth for a
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