The Shagbark Hickory 



THE hickory, like the beech and chestnut, is 

 best known for its nuts. But though, like the 

 beech and chestnut, it is a nut-bearing tree, it 

 is in many ways very different from them. 



The hickory is a tall and slender tree, fre- 

 quently seventy or eighty feet high, with stout 

 branches and an open crown. The leaves are 

 often as much as a foot long. They are made 

 up of five to seven smaller leaflets growing on one 

 stem. The single leaves of the other trees were 

 "simple." These are "compound." The leaflets 



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