Our results with hybrid hickories and with hicans have been much more encouraging in so far as the set of scions and growth is concerned.
In my own grounds I have black walnut, Persian walnuts, pecans, filberts, hicans and some others.
The Hicans and Hickories The hicansare numerous in this and adjacent counties.
I doubt that northern pecans, big western shellbarks and hicans will have a long enough season to ripen.
Of the twenty hicans we have tried the above three only are satisfactory.
In this latitude the hicans are unquestionably the most satisfactory nut trees to plant.
A man said to me some time ago, "I wonder why God made the hicans the cross between the pecans and the hickory?
We've made a few walnuts, hickories, and hicans grow, but still have too many zeroes for any complacency.
For instance, the field that fitted my plan to plant walnuts is too wet, so there we shall plant the hickories, pecans and hicans with persimmons as fillers.
The planting originally consisted of twenty Chinese chestnuts, fifteen named black walnuts, four hicans and four Persian walnuts.
Hicans and northern pecans do not develop north of Lake Ontario.
Pecans and hicans were also grafted on hardy northern pecan seedlings, and Japanese walnut stocks were used for butternuts and heartnuts.
Hicans that graft well on local bitternut stocks are the Rockville, first in hardiness and for bearing nuts of the usual size for Rockville.
The hicans make one of the prettiest trees but they don't bear.
After years of test I have decided to use the northern pecan seedlings as rootstocks for my shagbarks, pecans, and hicans because they are a fast growing stock tree.
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