FOX HICKORY (Shagbark, Carya ovata) 
This variety originated near Fonda, N. Y. On the hills about three 
miles north of the Mohawk River. Won first prize in the Northern Nut 
Growers Contest of 1934. Fox has not lived up to its reputation; while 
it is a very good nut, especially for the far north, the nuts produced on 
grafts from it have not been real top flight hickory nuts. There is a 
mystery connected with Fox which has not been solved yet. There may 
be bud variation in the parent tree or 1t may vary from season to season, 
1934 being one of its better seasons. 
Nuts of the 1942 crop from our graft were rated by Mr. C. R. Reed 
as follows: 87 nuts per pound, 41.26 per cent kernel, cracked 69.28 
per cent halves, size medium, shell thin, cleavage medium to good, plump- 
ness good, color bright, quality good, flavor sweet, rated B. 
Tree vigorous and very hardy. Nuts ripen here the middle of Sep- 
tember in normal years; this brings it in the medium early ripening class. 
