NUTS. 321 



SHAGBARK HICKORY. (Juglans squamosa.) 



The Shagbark, or Shellbarlc, is an elegant tree, of a tall 

 and stately form, rising to the height of 80 or 90 feet. Its 

 height is very tall in proportion to its dimensions near the 

 base ; often from forty to fifty diameters. 



The leaves are oval, acuminate, in five leaflets, of a beau- 

 tiful shining green above, glaucous beneath. When it has 

 arrived to middle size, the outer bark separates in long, thin 

 plates or scales, warped out at the ends, giving the tree a 

 shaggy and bristling appearance. In this respect it differs 

 not only from other trees, but from other hickories ; also in 

 the fruit, which is round or oval, its hull very thick, cover- 

 ing a nut whose shell is always thin, and four-lobed kernel, 

 sweet. The timber of the shagbark always splits clear ; it 

 works smooth ; it is very compact, strong, and elastic, and 

 is preferred to any other wood or hickory for axe-handles, 

 ox-bows, and various domestic utensils, where all these 

 qualities are required. 



CULTIVATION, SOIL, &c. The cultivation of this tree 

 is the same as the walnut. It flourishes in any good soil, 

 even in low, wet land. 



PACANE NUT. (Juglans olivaformis.) 



A beautiful tree, rising, with a straight, well-proportioned 

 trunk, to the height of 60 or 70 feet. Each leaf consists 

 of six or seven leaflets. The nut, which is encompassed 

 with a thin hull, is an inch and a half long, cylindrical, 

 pointed at its extremities, and has four slightly-projecting 

 angular ribs. The shell is smooth and thin, the kernel four- 

 lobed, and sweet. 



FILBERT. (Corylus.) 



A large shrub, with wood of an ash color ; leaves alter- 

 nate, roundish cordate. Its fruit is well known and highly 

 esteemed. They are extensively cultivated in Europe, 

 " In the neighborhood of Avelino, in Italy," says Swinburn, 

 " the whole face of the neighboring valley is covered with 

 them, and in good years they yield a profit of 60,000 ducats. 

 And from a single wood near Recus, in Spain, sixty thou- 

 sand bushels have been gathered in a single year, and 

 shipped from Barcelona ; whence they are called Barcelona 

 nuts." Phillips. 



