64 FOREST TREES. 
in the cellar, the success of which, he says, is certain. 
If this plan be adopted, care must be taken that they 
are kept so cool as not to sprout too early for plant- 
ing. Some advise planting in the fall, but I have 
never succeeded, even tolerably well, in this way. 
The nuts are likely to be discovered and taken out by 
mice and squirrels, which, if they once find them, 
show great pertinacity and some cunning in hunting 
them up. The young trees should receive clean 
culture until they are no longer in danger of being 
smothered by weeds. 
The Hickories are all of rather slow growth, which 
renders it more important that the young trees, of 
which there are many in some parts of the country, 
should be spared by the axe, and protected from 
cattle. 
1. Carya alba—Shellbark Hickory. 
Leaflets, five; minutely downy underneath ; finely 
serrate ; the three upper obovate lanceolate; the lower 
pair much smaller, and oblong lanceolate; all taper- 
pointed; fruit, depressed; globular; nut, somewhat 
flattened, nearly pointless, with a rather thin whitish 
shell, and a large kernel. 
This species when full grown is a lofty tree, but is, 
proportionally, less in diameter than most other trees. 
It is often eighty feet high with a diameter of two 
feet or less). The trunk is of uniform diameter and 
destitute of branches for the greater part of its height. 
It is one of the most valuable of the Hickories for 
timber, and is not surpassed by any other tree for fuel. 
