My look went past her through the lead-rimmed window-panes to the great oaks and hickories on the lawn; to these and to the white road winding in and out among them.
The night was clear but moonless, and the thick-leafed masses of the oaks and hickories rose a wall of black to curtain half the hemisphere of starry sky.
No walnut opens its husk in regular segments, as the hickoriesall do.
We know the original ancestor of the pecan, our hickories and our walnuts.
I also located two excellent shagbarkhickories which have fair-sized nuts with thin shell and fine kernels.
But I believe that there are varieties among the hickories which should be to the North what the pecan is to the South.
There are some fifteen species of hickories native in the United States.
Grafting--Perhaps the most interesting thing to be related is the result of attempts to determine the species of hickoriesbest suited as stock for the fine varieties of hickories that we have.
I have records of several other good hickories and plan to inspect these at the earliest opportunity.
In the above two groups of hickories the one where scions were cut from young, rapidly growing trees, contrasts unmistakably with those where scions were cut from old bearing trees.
The proper species to be used as a stock for the various varieties of hickories has not been shown conclusively for the number of grafts of each kind set was too few to be conclusive, and these experiments should be repeated.
And I should hail the day with great interest when there are good, recognized varieties of hickories corresponding with the best varieties of pecans.
Seemingly the pecan is the stock that gets the greatest number of catches; but the difficulty the writer has had in making Vest hickories on pecan root live, leads him to question as to whether another stock might not prove better.
The fine varieties of hickories that we have which are generally supposed to be largely shagbarks may prove to be much better adapted for grafting on some stocks than on others.
Graft promising hickories in the tops of established hickory seedling trees.
The Hicans and Hickories The hicans are numerous in this and adjacent counties.
There is a volunteer stand of such hickories on the lands of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District that would be ideal for such top-working.
The hickories that have proved to be fairly hardy but have produced very few nuts are the Cedarapids and the Kirtland.
This root system does not handle all hickories by any means.
Black walnuts and hickories stand at the head of the list, as reported by seventy-five correspondents each.
Leading native wild trees are, first hazels, then black walnuts, hickories and butternuts.
This is the third year that I have grafted hickories on the grounds of this school, some three thousand acres.
The Bridgewater and the Beeman are two morehickories which are very hardy and which come into bearing quickly, also are successfully grafted on bitternut root.
REED: It did in that one instance, but, on the other hand, we have seen pecans grown on top-worked hickories that you could hardly tell from typical specimens of pecans grown on pecan stocks.
That is, probably, one of the best stocks for the hickories if one wishes to experiment.
This is the habit of young hickories and walnuts rather largely.
Most of the species of the botanical family Juglandaceae, to which the walnuts and hickories belong, are slow growers, and as such, are objectionable to the average planter.
There are now grown in northern nut tree nurseries approved by this association named varieties of pecans, Persian walnuts, black walnuts, hickories and some other nuts amply sufficient to start orchards.
The native walnuts, most species of hickories and the American beech are large-growing and long-lived trees.
On one of these young hickories you observe I made three slice grafts and all of them have taken with a very thrifty growth of the Taylor variety.
Seedling walnuts and hickories have been procurable for years from nurseries all over the country, as is shown by nursery catalogue listings; and at least two concerns--one at Lockport, N.
Among hundreds of hickories examined, many of them in response to prize offers, this tree at the entrance furnishes one of the very best nuts of the lot.
It is one of the best hickories in the quality of its wood, and also as an ornamental tree.
In other hickories they are largely restricted to the inner part of each ring, though a few are dispersed through all parts.
It is not distinguished from the other hickories in commerce, and it has the same uses when any use is made of it.
The names are so many, and so often apply as well to other hickories as to this, that the name alone is seldom a safe guide to identification.
Those who would grow hickories for timber, nuts, or as ornaments, should plant the seed where the tree is expected to remain.
Although there are twelve hickories in the United States, and in many respects they are similar, all are not of equal value.
The hickories have long tap roots, and they do best in soils which the tap roots can penetrate, going down like a radish.
Fine trunks stand near public highways, along river banks, and in fields, while all merchantable hickories of other species have been sent to market.
It is one of the largest and commonest hickories of New England, and is likewise the common hickory of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
The pecans are not usually regarded as true hickories from the wood-user's viewpoint.
Hickories and walnuts belong to the same family, and have many points in common.
For many years, I observed hickories and walnuts in bloom and hand-pollinated them, yet I overlooked many things I should have discovered earlier in study.
As experiments continue, more varieties of worthy, hardy hickories and hiccans will be found which will justify completely the opinion of those of us who always hail as king of all our native nuts, the hickory.
In the spring of 1941, I decided to make special pollen combinations with all the hickories then in bloom.
I ordered a few hickories at the same time but these eventually died.
Hickories are the last of these native trees to be recommended from a commercial standpoint, as they are the most particular about soil and climate.
In March 1924, I purchased twelve Beaver and twelve Fairbanks hybrid hickories from J.
My experience with hickorieswas very discouraging since they were my favorite nuts and I had set my heart on growing some.
Yet as a root system, the bitternut is the hardiest and easiest to transplant of any of the hickories and for these reasons it makes an ideal stock for the amateur nut-grower to use.
I found that the secret of growing hickories successfully lies in giving them plenty of room, with no forest trees around to cut off their supply of sunlight and air.
Without much enthusiasm, I grafted the material he had sent me on about a dozen trees, some of them very large hickories and I was most agreeably surprised to find the grafting successful and more than one branch bearing nutlets.
A list of successfully grafted varieties is appended, and indicates to what extent this stock is a universal root stock for most of the hickories and their hybrids.
There was one time when I had from six to ten varieties of hickories and their hybrids grafted on wild bitternut hickory stocks, totally lacking in identification.
They did not bother the walnuts particularly, but were very fond of hickories and pecan trees.
Of course this could be shortened, just as it is in propagating hickories and pecans, by making grafts on root systems which are ten or more years old, as explained in the chapter on heartnuts.
A satisfactory start was made in propagating the prize-winning shagbarkhickories of our 1932 contest and further work will be done with these kinds in the present season.
In closing I wish also to suggest that, in making a large planting of black walnuts, plant a few pecans, hicans, hickories and any other good trees recommended by the nurserymen.
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.
Many oaks and ash trees, the hickories and birches, and the beeches have widely spreading limbs forming tops that are oblong in shape.
The hickories are cousins of the walnuts, but their leaves, though of the feather form, have larger and fewer leaflets than any walnut tree.
The hickories as a class, except the pecan, can not stand "civilization," especially much tramping about the base.
Sargent in his revision of the hickories does not include Indiana in its range.
The wood of the shellbark and the big shellbark hickories is the most used of all the hickories because it is generally freer from knots and blemishes.
To these descriptions are added new characters which Sargent gives in his revision of the hickories in Bot.
The hickories were like the apples this year in that they did not bloom much, and unlike them in that the apples ripened ahead of their normal season, while the hickories ripened later.
However, the place they received in this contest, together with its latitude of origin, which is nearly 44 degrees, should commend the Westphal to the consideration of all who are interested in hickories for the northernmost region.
Of the other hickories indigenous to this zone, all are omitted from the discussion for definite reasons, chief of which is the fact that few or no seedlings of promise have been found.
The most important planting is about 5 acres of cleared woodland in which manyhickories have come up naturally.
This makes it of value for there are few of our named hickories that will do well when grafted on the mockernut.
Among the hickories the Barnes, of which there are 3 trees, has fruited several times but in no case have the nuts been filled.
More than we think for, perhaps, in the hickories we are using to graft from, there is quite likely, in the sizeable shagbarks, something besides shagbark.
For the past nine years in the nut season, and sometimes out of it, for nut shucks tell their story, I have been combing my own territory with hopes of finding somehickories more worth while.
Hickories According to Alfred Rehder, of Harvard, in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, six species of hickory are indigenous to that region east of the Rocky Mountains here discussed under the term of the northernmost nut zone.
The shagbark hickories gave a good stand, about as perfect a stand as you could expect in hickories.
Talk to people about better hickories and you discern first that the subject has never been brought to their attention.
We find that hickories grafted on pecan stocks do well, putting on two and one-half to three feet of new growth in a year.
The shortage of moisture in 1933 apparently was responsible for considerable winter killing of younghickories which were in sod.
The leaves resemble those of the other hickories and the black walnut.
For fuel the hickories are the most satisfactory of our native trees.
This and other hickories are very desirable both for forest and shade trees.
The oaks and hickories delight to grow in a lower and richer soil, running in narrow streaks through the different eminences, which grounds, when cleared and cultivated, amply reward the industrious planter.
It was a pleasant hillside where I worked, covered with pine woods, through which I looked out on the pond, and a small open field in the woods where pines and hickories were springing up.
The man who attempts to raise hickories from root cuttings must have patience, for very frequently the cuttings will remain apparently dormant in the ground one entire season before the sprouts appear above the surface.
But as it is only the varieties of the pecan and thick- and thin-shelled shagbark hickories that are likely to be of any economic value to the nut culturist, all others will be omitted.
Since the destruction of these trees I have not been troubled with bark borers, although there are still a number of very old and large hickories thriving in the same grove.
I should advise anyone who wishes to propagate hickories on a large scale to grow stocks of this species in boxes not more than four inches deep.
They are both Hickories in name, but not truly so in nature.
From that time, the Blakes dwindled, and the Hickories rose.
We were present for the hawthorn day; saw the ineffable dogwoods at their highest best; the brief bloom of the hickories when they put on their orchids and seemed displeased to be caught in such glory by human eyes.
A man here said that you can transplant hickories if you get all the roots, but that they bleed to death even in winter, if their laterals are severed.
Twice I have tried to make young hickories live, but failed.
Footnote 27: The oaks for some unknown reason fall below the normal strength for weight, whereas the hickories rise above.
In the study of the hickories the conclusion was: "There is an unfounded prejudice against the heartwood.
But the southern hickories have a greater tendency to be shaky, and this results in much waste.
The hickories turned a flaunting yellow, the oaks a copper-red, the leaves crackled on the Catawba vines, and still Tom McChesney did not come.
Oaks and hickories and walnuts and persimmons spread out in a glade, and the wild grape twisted fantastically around the trunks.
The shadows of the walnuts and hickories were growing long, and a rich country was giving up its scent to the evening air.
Down in the valley we came to a path that branched from the road and led under the oaks and hickories towards the pond, and we had not taken twenty paces in it before the notes of a guitar and the sound of a voice reached our ears.
Rules which apply to the shagbark may be applied to all of the hickories with which I have experimented.
I would like to know what your experience is in grafting hickories over an inch in diameter.
It is probable that there will be great differences in the orchard behavior of these various hickories shown as this is done and that then we shall be able to select the most desirable varieties.
The time for cutting back hickories in preparation for topworking is probably important and in my experience to date, autumn cutting is preferable.
Of the ten hickories noted on the slip as receiving 70 to 75 points, four, it is agreed, are hybrids.
I am convinced that as soon as we can furnish the fine hickories we now have in commercial quantities they will command prices equal to those paid for the finest pecans.
When this has been done the larger hickories do not send up stump sprouts at all and the root dies excepting in cases in which a slot bark graft has been introduced.
There are few hickories which are "propagated" in this sense and perhaps a better title would be "What We Know About the Hickories That Are Propagated Experimentally.
Tests made of the soil seemed to show that it was not the kind of soil in which hickories and pecans do their best.
In very large hickories I have cut them hack to short stubs and have had a number of them die.
There seems to be no question but that anyone who has land with hickory trees one to four inches in diameter can easily and quickly change them into orchards of hickories bearing fine nuts by top working.
Scions for topworking hickories have been employed for what I call "mediate" and "immediate" grafting.
Specimens of the Beam, Beaver, Clark, Manahan, Stanley, Swaim and Weicker hickories by W.
Then he got on his horse and rode her through the hickories out to the brow of the hill.
The final solution of the problem was determined by my observation this year of grafted hickories of several sizes and ages were Weschcke shagbark (C.
But we take in pecans and the hickories and for the walnuts the situation is quite general.
So far as is known, he never used any stock for hickories other than pecan, which grew well, made good unions and generally outgrew the scions.
This happens to many kinds of trees, including all the oaks, butternut, black walnut, all the hickories and even the chestnuts.
Hickories are slow to grow and one gets too few nuts at best.
Hickories and chestnuts were apparently not seriously damaged but some seedlings of the Japanese walnut were killed to the ground.
Other hickories may have been propagated by Mr. Jones while at Monticello but these are the only ones of which there is record.
So it took many years and a different growth phenomenon to open my eyes as to what was the trouble in getting hickories to bear on foreign root systems.
The shell, being the thinnest of all hickories (known to me) leads me to suspect the hybridity with the bitternut.
Mr. Jones once wrote that he had given up with the hickories "in disgust.
Thompson, Owensville, and William Seng, of Jasper, contributed some large size thin-shelled shagbark hickories to our show.
The mulberries suffered greatly also, but in general the hickories of many varieties came through this winter, with very little damage, and most of them are bearing a few nuts.
Great hickories shot up sixty feet without a limb, and so close that a man putting out his hand could reach from one tree to another.
The School-teacher lifted his face and looked at the two great hickories marking the spot on the summit of the little meadow.
And at daybreak they laid the body in a grave which they had made between the two great hickories on the ridge beyond Nicholas Parks' house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hickories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
