Growing and Planting Hardwood Seedlings. 



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The fruit of osage orange, mulberry, the cherries, cucumber, holly, 

 black gum, Kentucky coffeetree, honey locust, and others of a 

 fleshy nature, needs to be macerated in water until the seed can be 

 washed out. It should then be dried in a cool, shady place. 



The fruit of the black locust readily yields its seed if it is placed in 

 a sack or on a smooth surface and lightly flailed. 



When fairly dry, the hulls of the pignut, shellbark, shagbark, and 

 the mockernut hickories will fall off in handling. The thin hulls of 

 other hickories need not be removed. The soft hulls of black walnut 

 may be removed by hand, by running the nuts through a close-set 



FIG. 11. Black locust plantation, 9 years old. Trees 3 to 6 inches in 



Knox County, Ind. 



, 35 feet in height. 



cornsheller, or by allowing the nuts to lie on the ground in a sheltered 

 place until the hulls rot or are destroyed by a small maggot that often 

 attacks them. This maggot does no harm to the nut itself. 



SEED STORAGE. 



The best time to sow seed, either in the nursery or on the permanent 

 planting site, is soon after it is ripe. When this is not possible, the 

 seed must be stored until spring. Seed that matures in the spring 

 and early summer, that of the willows, poplars, most of the elms, 

 river birch, and red and silver maples, does not retain its vitality well 

 if stored. It should be sown as soon after ripening as possible. Most 

 of the late-maturing hardwood seed may be successfully stored until 

 the following spring. 



