DAVIS HICKORY (Shagbark, Carya ovata) 
This variety originated near Dover Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y. 
The original tree grows about five miles from our nursery. We discov- 
ered it while searching for varieties to send to the New York and New 
England Contest of 1934, and entered it in the contest in the name of 
the owner of the tree, Mr. Dwight Davis. It won first prize in the contest. 
Tree is very vigorous and hardy. It is the only variety of shagbark 
which we have found to grow well on pignut stocks. 
Nuts of the 1942 crop were rated by Mr. C. A. Reed as follows: 
88 nuts per pound, 40.98 per cent kernel, 60 per cent halves, size medium, 
shell medium to thin, cleavage very good, plumpness good, color bright, 
quality good, flavor sweet; rated B plus. Nuts ripen here the first week 
in October; this places it in the medium late ripening class. 
While we do not consider Davis to be one of our very best nuts, it 1s 
among our top flight varieties. It is an excellent variety and bears well 
and young. 
