

Hickory Nuts 



There is marked variation in the size, form, and quality 



of the nuts of different hickory trees, even when growing in the 



same neighborhood. Thus their is good opportunity for selective 



breeding, but unfortunately the hickory is of such slow growth 



that few experimenters have the courage to undertake its 



development. The hickory does not ordinarily 



bear nuts until it is ten or twelve years ol*. 



