AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



useful wherever it exists in sufficient quantity. The largest specimens attain a height 

 of fifty feet and a diameter of eighteen inches. The tree bears nuts when very small, 

 and the kernel is sweet. The bark of this hickory is rough but not shaggy. The 

 range extends from New Jersey to Florida and west to Missouri and Texas. It is 

 most abundant in the lower Appalachian ranges. The wood possesses the common 

 characteristics of the hickories, and it is cut with them wherever it is found, but is 

 seldom or never reported separately in 'lumber operations. 



SMALL PIGNUT HICKORY (Hicoria odorata) is considered a species by some 

 botanists while others regard it as a variety. It is called small pignut in Maryland, 

 and occasionally little shagbark. This last name refers to the roughness of the bark 

 which resembles the bark of elm. The range of the tree extends from Massachusetts 

 to Missouri and south to the Ohio and the Potomac rivers. The wood differs little- 

 from that of pignut hickory, and the uses are the same. No distinction is made 

 between them at the shop and factory. This tree is by some botanists* believed to be 

 a hybrid between shagbark and pignut. It is sometimes called false shagbark. The 

 nut is edible. 



