. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. 173 THE NUT CULTUEIST. are plenty of larger ones with thin shells which would be far more valuable for cultivation; A careful research extending over a period of a quarter of a century, yields only a solitary instance of the propagation and dissemination of a variety of the shellbark hickory, and this one is Hales' Paper-shell, which I named, described and figured-in the Rural New- Yorker, Nov. 19, 1870, p; , Vol. XXII. I am t
. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. 173 THE NUT CULTUEIST. are plenty of larger ones with thin shells which would be far more valuable for cultivation; A careful research extending over a period of a quarter of a century, yields only a solitary instance of the propagation and dissemination of a variety of the shellbark hickory, and this one is Hales' Paper-shell, which I named, described and figured-in the Rural New- Yorker, Nov. 19, 1870, p; , Vol. XXII. I am thus particular in regard^ tq -time and place, because years hence these facts may be of jcaor& importance than at the present day. ' " The original tree of this remarkable variety is grow- ing upon the farm of Mr. Henry Hales; near Eidgewood, N. J., and on bottom land within a few rods of the Saddle river. The tree is probably more than a hun- dred years old, and is about seventy-five, feet high, and nearly two feet in diameter at the base, and of the shape shown in Fig. 60, taken from a sketch made in the fall .of 1894. There are a large num- ber of the shellbark hickories growing nearby, and while there are several excellent and very large varieties among them, the FIG. 61. HALBs' HioKOKY. onc I have named is by far the largest and m-ost distinct in form, and with the thinnest shell; in fact, the shell is much"thinner than in many of the pecan nuts that reach our Northern markets from the South. The size and form of these nuts is clearly shown in Fig. 61, while the thin shell and thick, plump kernel is seen in the cross-section, Fig. 63. It will, be noticed that these nuts differ from the ordi- nary varieties of this species in the absence of the sharp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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