Handbook of Trej^s of the Noktiiern States and Canada. 



This stately Hickory occasionally attains 

 the height of 120 ft. and 3 or 4 ft. in dianictor 

 of trunk. When growing apart from otlier 

 trees it develops an oblong or suliovoid top 

 with drooping lower branches and witli large 

 handsome leaves. Its trunk is vested in very 

 much the same kind of shaggy gray bark that 

 is seen on the Shag-bark trunks, thoiigli tin- 

 long scales as a rule do not curve outward as 

 much as do those of that species. It is also 

 more distinctly a tree of the bottom-lands ( for 

 which reason it is somotinics called the Bot- 

 tom Shell-bark) associating there with the 

 Cottonwood, Hackberry, Slippery p]lm, Pep- 

 peridge, Sweet Cum, Swamp White and Burr 

 Oaks, Black and Red Maples, etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighs .")(). .■33 lbs., is very similar to 

 that of the Shag-bark in properties and valued 

 for tool-handles, agricultural implements, etc. 2 

 The nuts are not considered quite as delicate 

 as those of the Shag-bark in flavor and they 

 do not generally command quite as high a 

 price in the trade. 



Lrnrrs ll!-24 in. loni;, the stout petioles often 

 persist inj; late into the winter; leftets 7 (cx- 

 oeptionally ."> or !t). olilonj; lanceolate to ohovati', 

 usually (iiili(|Ui' at base icxceiiting the teruiiiiali. 

 strrale acuminate at apex, dark green above, paler 

 and pubescent beneath. Floircrs in May: stanii- 

 nate with central calyx-lobe narrow and twice as 

 long as the lateral ones. Fruit solitary or 2 or 

 ."? to'jether, oblong. l%-2i/. in. long with thick 

 woody husk and compressed thick-shelled yellowish 

 white nut \V^-2V4 in. Ions; with prominent stout 

 point at base ; seed bright brown, rich and 

 delicious. 



1. Syii. Carya sulcata .Nutt. 



2. A. w., nr, 04. 



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