. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 75^ Home Nature-Study CouRsfi. (6). Is the nut angled or pointed or roundish and without angles? Is the shell thick or thin? Is its kernel sweet or bitter? Facts for the Teacher.—All the hickories are tall growers and when in a wood reaching upward for light, their slenderness is extreme. A shag-bark with a trunk six inches thick when closely crowded will show eight or ten feet of height to each inch of the trunk's diamete
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 75^ Home Nature-Study CouRsfi. (6). Is the nut angled or pointed or roundish and without angles? Is the shell thick or thin? Is its kernel sweet or bitter? Facts for the Teacher.—All the hickories are tall growers and when in a wood reaching upward for light, their slenderness is extreme. A shag-bark with a trunk six inches thick when closely crowded will show eight or ten feet of height to each inch of the trunk's diameter. Even when growing alone in a field the shag-bark is the tallest and most stately of its family; its head is unsymmetrical, ob- long in shape, the lower branches usually small and unequal in length, the upper ones irregularly dis- posed, causing gaps in the foliage. But the bark is the distinguishing mark of this tree; scaling away from its trunk in long thin plates that curve outward at top and bottom and are so slightly, held in the middle that they are easily pulled off with the fingers, it is unmistakable. Leaf and fruit too are distinc- tive ; the former has gen- erally five leaflets, some- times three and very rarely seven; the nut is large with a thick, smooth outer husk, channeled at the seams and separating readily into sections; the inner shell is sharply angled and pointed and slightly flattened at the sides. Kernel, sweet. The Big Shag-bark or King-nut is similar to the shag-bark in habit of growth, height and bark; but its leaflets are seven to nine, more oblong and wedge-like and are downy when young, the mature leaves remaining slightly downy beneath. The nut is very large, thick-shelled, oblong, angled, and pointed at both ends. The kernel is large and sweet but inferior in flavor to the smaller Shag-bark. The Mocker-nut or White-heart Hickory is more graceful than the Shag-bark, with a more symmetrical, oblong and rounded head. The bark on the trunk is dark
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