12G PKACTICAL FORESTET. 



pear, and in the open grounds and upon stocks of large size. 

 The difference is probably dus to climate, for we certainly have 

 as skiUf ul propagators in our northern nm-series as there are to 

 be found anywhere, but for some reason few have been success- 

 ful in propagating the hickory by any of the well-linown 

 methods of budding or grafting, either under glass or in the 

 open air. The cion wiU often unite and grow slowly for a 

 season or two, and then die, the union appearing to be an im- 

 perfect one. One of the most distinct and valuable varieties 

 that has ever been brought to my notice is the "Hales' Paper 

 Shell Hickory Nut." I first became acquainted with this variety 

 some fifteen years ago, and the next season described it under 

 the above name. It is a variety of the common SheU-bark 

 Hickory, and the tree is now growing with several others of 

 the same species, near the Saddle Eiver, on the farm of Mr. 

 Henry Hales, about two mEes east of Ridgewood, Bergen Co., 

 N. J. The tree is a large one, and produces a fair crop of nuts 

 annually. This handsome variety is well represented in the 

 accompanying illustration, figure 31, showing a side view, 

 natural size, and figure 32 a cross section, showing thickness 

 of the kernel, and the extreme thinness of the shell. The 

 general appearance of this nut is quite similar to some of the 

 varieties of the English walnut, the surface being broken up 

 into smaU depressions, instead of angles and corrugations 

 as usually seen in the large varieties of the shell-barks. Of all 

 who have attempted to propagate this fine, and I think I may 

 $ay unique variety, by budding and grafting, Mr. J. R. 

 Trumpy, of Flushing, N. Y., is the only one 

 who has thus far been successful, he having 



lucoeeded in making a little less than one hun- 



Ired live. 

 If the space at my disposal would admit of 



t, I should be pleased to refer to several other 



"■arieties that I have obtained from various 

 l)arts of the country, but as it will not, I must 

 _. „S''^ be satisfied with referring to one which in the 



Fig. 33. DEFOKM- J! jy 1 J! j_ , , 



ED HicKOKr NUT. "^^^^ °^ ^ freak of nature can scarcely be excel- 

 led. This variety comes from Connecticut, 

 where a very large-tree of the Shell-bark Hickory annually pro- 

 duces a good crop of excellent nuts of the form and size shown 

 in figure 33, one lobe or side of each nut fails to fill out, the 

 nuts otherwise being perfect. 



