THE Hickory NuT—AND 
OTHER NUTS 
IMPROVEMENTS Wuicuo Have BEEN WrovuGHut 
AnD SoME SUGGESTIONS 
HERE 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—Cuapter V] 
