The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . and of a beautiful green: whenripe, it opens through half its length, for the passage of the nut is small, smooth, and very hard on account of thethickness of the shell. Its kernel is sweet but meagre anddifficult to extract, from the firmness of the partitions. Theform and size of these nuts vary more than in any other are oval, and when covered with their husks, resembleyoung figs; others are broader than they are long, and others 184 SYLVA
The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . and of a beautiful green: whenripe, it opens through half its length, for the passage of the nut is small, smooth, and very hard on account of thethickness of the shell. Its kernel is sweet but meagre anddifficult to extract, from the firmness of the partitions. Theform and size of these nuts vary more than in any other are oval, and when covered with their husks, resembleyoung figs; others are broader than they are long, and others 184 SYLVA AMERICANA. are perfectly round. Among these various forms, some nuts areas large as the thumb, and others not bigger than the little wood of the pignut hickory resembles that of the otherspecies, in the color of its sap and of its heart; it possesses alsotheir excellencies and their defects. It is the strongest and themost tenacious of the hickories, and for this reason, is preferredto any other for axletrees and axe handles. These considerationshighly recommend its cultivation. Shellbark Hickory. Juglans PLATE 1. A leaflet. Fig. 2. A nut witli tlie liuslc. The singular dispositionof the bark, in this species,has given rise to the de-scriptive names of Shellbark,Shagbark and ScalybarkHickory, the first of which,as being most generally inuse in the Middle andSouthern States, we haveadopted. Many descend-ants of the Dutch settlers,who inhabit the part of NewJersey near the city of NewYork, call it Kisky ThomasJVut, and the French ofIllinois, know it by the nameof JYoyer Tendre, or softnorth of Portsmouth, New Fig. 3. A nut without the liuslj. walnut. This tree is unknownHampshire ; and even there, its vegetation being impeded bythe rigors of the climate, its stature is low and its fruit small. Itabounds on the shores of Lake Erie, about Geneva in Genessee,along the river Mohawk, in New Jersey and on the bank of the^usquehannah and Schuylkill in Pe
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