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are perfectly round. Among these various forms, some nuts are 

 as large as the thumb, and others not bigger than the little finger. 

 The wood of the pignut hickory resembles that of the other 

 species, in the coior of its sap and of its heart ; it possesses also 

 their excellencies and their defects. It is the strongest and the 

 most tenacious of the hickories, and for this reason, is preferred 

 to any other for axletrees and axe handles. These considerations 

 highly recommend its cultivation. 



Shellbark Hickory. Jugla 



ns squamosa. 



The singular disposition 



of the bark, in this species, 



has given rise to the de- 



scriotive names of SheUbark, 



Shagbark and Scalybark 



Hickory, the first of which, 



as being most generally in 



use in the Middle and 



Southern States, we have 



adopted. Many descend- 

 ants of the Dutch settlers, 



who inhabit the part of New 



Jersey near the city of New 



York, call it Kisky Thomas 



Nut, and the French of 



Illinois, know it by the name 



of Noyer Tendre, or soft 



walnut. This tree is unknown north of Portsmouth, New 



Hampshire ; and even there, its vegetation being impeded by 



the rigors of the climate, its stature is low and its fruit small. It 



abounds on the shores of Lake Erie, about Geneva in Genessee, 



along the river Mohawk, in New Jersey and on the bank of the 



Susquehannah and Schuylkill in Pennsylvania. In Maryland, 



in the lower parts of Virginia and in the other Southern States it 



is less common. It is met with in South Carolina and also the 



Western States, though not so abundantly as some other species. 



PLATE XLIV. 



Fig. 1. A leaflet. Fig. 2. A nut with the husk. 

 Fig. 3. A nut without the husk. 



