FOREST TREES. 



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resembling those of the butternut. Fruit globular, husk very- 

 thin, nut yellowish, thin shelled. Kernel intensely bitter. 

 Wood rather soft, white, but often quite tough. A small, slen- 

 der tree of a graceful habit when allowed room for full develop- 

 ment of its branches. Common in low, moist ground, from 

 Canada to Florida, and westward to Texas. 



C. aquatica, Nutt. — Water Hickory. — Leaflets nine to eleven, 

 oblong-lanceolate, pointed, smooth. Fruit roundish, four ribbed, 

 husk thin, nut flattish, four angled with thin shell, and kernel 

 very bitter. A small tree witii rough, somewhat furrowed 

 bark. Wood similar to the last, and I may add a closely allied 

 species, and perhaps only a southern variety of it. From North 

 Carolina south and westward. 



C. myristicseformis. — Nutmeg Hickory. — Leaflets five, ovate- 

 lanceolate, smooth, the terminal ones sessile. Fruit oval, 

 rough ; nut of same form, pointed, shell hard, furrowed, re- 

 sembling the nutmeg, hence its name. A small tree in the 

 swamps and low grounds. South from South Carolina, west- 

 ward to Louisiana. Carya microcarpa of Nuttall, is now con- 



Fig. 31. — PAPER-SHELL Fig. 32.— CROSS SECTION OF HALES' 

 HICKORY. PAPER-SHELL HICKORY. 



sidered by some of our highest botanical authorities to be only 

 a variety of the Shell-bark Hickory {Carya alba). 



There are hundreds of quite distinct varieties of the hickories 

 to be found in our forests, and some of them are well worthy 

 of preservation and propagation. But in our northern climate, 

 budding and grafting the hickory is seldom successful, although 

 several of my correspondents assure me that they find little 

 more difficulty in grafting hickories than they do the apple or 



