THE HICKORY NUT AND 

 OTHER NUTS 



IMPROVEMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE 

 AND SOME SUGGESTIONS 



THERE is perhaps no other wild plant pro- 

 ducing a really delicious food product that 

 has been so totally neglected by the culti- 

 vator as the shagbark or shellbark hickory tree 

 (Gary a ovata). 



The better varieties of hickory nuts always 

 find a ready sale in the market, and are highly 

 prized by the housekeeper. But such nuts as 

 find their way to the market are almost without 

 any exception the product of wild trees, gathered 

 usually by some wandering boy, and often re- 

 garded as the property of whoever can secure 

 them, regardless of the ownership of the land on 

 which the tree grows. 



Even the new interest in nuts as food products 

 and as orchard crops that has been developed in 

 our own generation, has hardly as yet included 

 the hickory, or at least has not sufficed to bring 



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