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SEEDS THAT ANIMALS LIKE/ 
TO EAT. 
THE HICKORY. 
The meat of the hickory nut is 
a seed. The hickory tree bears 
two kinds of blossoms. Like the 
willow , it has staminate catkins 
and also bears pistillate flowers, 
from which grow nuts. Some 
hickory catkins are very long and 
slender and make pretty green 
tassJis. tassels on the trees in the spring. Hickory 
nuts are good to eat, and you may wonder how 
these delicious nuts, that many creatures are 
fond of, ever get a chance to grow. 
Squirrels are fond of nuts, and 
they are generally on hand when 
the nuts are ripe. 
The green nuts have 
an outer covering that jjfp- hickory nuts. 
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