THE HICKORY NUT AND 

 OTHER NUTS 



IMPROVEMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN WROUGHT 

 AND SOME SUGGESTIONS 



THERE is perhaps no other wild plant pro- 

 ducing a really delicious food product that 

 has been so totally neglected by the culti- 

 vator as the shagbark or shellbark hickory tree. 



The better varieties of hickory-nuts always find 

 a ready sale in the market, and are highly prized 

 by the housekeeper. But such nuts as find their 

 way to the market are almost without exception 

 the product of wild trees, gathered usually by some 

 wandering boy, and often regarded as the property 

 of whoever can secure them, regardless of the 

 ownership of the land on which the tree grows. 



Even the new interest in nuts as food products 

 and as orchard crops that has been developed in 

 our own generation, has not as yet included the 

 hickory, or at least has not sufficed to bring the 

 hickory tree from the woods and give it a place 

 within the territory of the orchardist. 



[VOLUME XI CHAPTER V] 



