DECIDUOUS TREES. 87 
might be filled with merely the names of the articles 
which are wholly or in part made of hickory. There are 
several species, some of which are to be found in almost 
eyery portion of the United States, and in almost all kinds 
of soils, high or low, wet and dry. Sand-stone regions 
have their hickories as well as the limestone, but seldom 
of the same species, all of which are more 
or less valuable. Hickory hoop-poles are 
always in demand, and command a large 
price. Plantations for this purpose alone 
would be very valuable. For ornamental 
purposes, there are few trees that excel the 
Hickory in variety and beauty of foliage. 
The Hickories are chiefly rather coarse- 
growing trees, with very little small spray, 
the branches terminating with a large bud. 
Fig. 25 shows a terminal shoot of C. tomen- 
g, before the 
5) 
leaves expand. ‘The leaflets are situated on 
tosa as it appears in sprin 
a long petiole with three terminal ones, the 
others in opposite pairs, consequently there 
is an odd number of leaflets, often variable 
in the same species. Fig. 26 shows a hick- 
Fig. 25. ory leaf with seven leaflets. The nuts are 
produced usually in clusters, inclosed in a thick leathery 
husk, which divides when ripe and allows the nut proper 
to fall out. 
Carya oiv=rormis (Pecan-nut).— Leaflets eleven to 
fifteen, oblong lanceolate; nut long, oval, as seen in fig. 
27, nearly smooth; shell very thin; kernel sweet and 
