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taproot it may be best to plant at once permanently, and if possible 

 raise some field crop with tlie young plants. Make furrows about 

 three feet apart and drop the nuts about every half-foot. Weeds 

 will have to be kept down. If raised in a nursery, care will have to 

 be taken in transplanting, because of the long taproot. Cut off any 

 bruised or broken roots. 



WHITE-HEART HICKORY, HICKORY, KING NUT, MOCKER 



NUT. 



Carya tomentosa, Nutt. 



Hicoria alba, (L.) Britton. See Britton & Brown, Vol. I, p. 486. 



The young shoots of this tree are hairy; the nut angular and 

 pointed. It may be found more frequently and is perhaps the best of 

 the family from the standpoint of forestry because of its choosing the 

 poorer soils, although its slow growth is against it. It is raised as 

 the shag-bark hickory. 



PIG NUT, BROOM HICKORY, SWITCH BUD HICKORY. 



Carya porcina, Nutt. 



Hicoria glabra, (Mill.) Britton. See Britton & Brown, Vol. I, p. 487. 



The bark is furrowed on older trees; the fruit is thin shelled. The 

 wood rivals that of the shag-bark, said by some even to surpass it. 

 It will grow both in high and low situations, but in Pennsylvania at 

 least it prefers moist soil. It is also treated as the shag-bark 

 hickory. 



BIRCHES. 

 Betula, L. 



Of the five birches commonly found in this State all are more or 

 less valuable or worthy of cultivation. The fruit of the red or river 

 birch and of the canoe birch matures in summer, about June. The 

 small seeds should be removed from the cone-like fruit and sown 

 broadcast at once in moist beds. Of course the plants must be 



