180 ) NUT GROWING 



Midway between the Leonard and the Weiker 

 stand such hickory nuts as the Vest and the Taylor 

 of medium to large size, thin shells, first rate cleav- 

 age and high quality of kernel. Both trees yield only 

 average sized crops of nuts. The Taylor, unlike 

 most hickories, however, may bear regular crops for 

 several years in succession instead of in alternate 

 years. Dr. William C. Deming has had it in bear- 

 ing by the third year after top-working. 



Hybrid hickories like Beaver and Laney with 

 medium to large thin shelled nuts of good quality 

 catch so readily on so many kinds of stocks that the 

 orchardist would prize these for top-working old field 

 stocks. The catalogues of reliable nurserymen in- 

 clude so many kinds of grafted hickories that I am 

 giving here simply a brief account that will suffice 

 for allowing the amateur to know that his subject 

 is a large one. 



