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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



NORTH CAROLINA SHAGBARK HICKORY (Hicoria carolintE-septentrionalis) is 

 found in the neighboring parts of the four states: North Carolina, Georgia, Tenm-s 

 and Alabama. In the best land this tree is occasionally eighty feet high and two or 

 three in diameter, but when it occurs on dry hillsides its average height is twenty or 

 thirty feet, and its diameter about a foot. The compound leaves are from four to 

 eight inches long, with usually three, but occasionally five leaflets. The sweet nuts 

 are small and brown. The bark separates into thick strips a foot or more in length 

 and three or four inches wide. The rough trunk resembles the northern shagbark 

 hickory. The wood is very tough, strong, and hard, the heart light reddish-brown, 

 the thin sapwood nearly white. It is not distinguished from the other hickories in 

 commerce, and it has the same uses when any use is made of it. 



