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diet that it may become a valuable grafting stock 

 for other hickories, and we already have some first- 

 rate hybrids including the shellbark as one parent. 



PIGNUTS 



The smooth bark pignut, Carya glabra, and the 

 loose bark pignut, Carya ovalis, bear nuts with sweet 

 kernels but lacking lively quality. Shells of the nuts 

 of both species are thick and the cleavage seldom 

 good. Both kinds may be grafted with fine shag- 

 barks. 



MOCKERNUT 



The mockernut, Carya alba, bears large crops of 

 thick-shelled nuts with a peculiar flavor which does 

 not appeal promptly to the palate with most people. 

 The tree will flourish on such poor sandy and grav- 

 elly soil that it may serve as grafting stock for va- 

 rieties of more choice species which cannot be grown 

 on their own roots in such soils. 



BUCKLEY HICKORY 



Another thick-shelled nut, that of the Buckley 

 hickory, Carya Buckleyi, has a kernel of distinctive 

 flavor and odor which has not as yet called for much 

 comment. Personally I find myself cracking and 

 eating Buckley hickory nuts at times as a matter of 

 unconscious choice, but one will not keep at it to the 



