Giant hickory from Ontario seems hardy but particular about the kind of soil and conditions.
It grafts extremely well on the wild bitternut hickory root which is about the hardiest known.
One of his particular interests is nut culture; a very superior hickory tree grows on his place, which bears a very high quality nut.
The mockernut hickory occurs about anywhere on the poor, acid, clay soils of the south, its vigor depending on fertility.
No other hickory nut has begun to touch it, in its regularity, reliability and its quality: that is, no hickory so far north.
Even before Kirtland and Bridgewater pollens were available those trees, grafted to the Weschcke, bore hickory nuts every year, but in very small quantities.
Study the pollenizing problems of all the better varieties of nut trees, especially the black walnut, chestnut and hickory species, and test the better varieties to find those best suited to Ohio conditions.
Graft promising hickories in the tops of established hickory seedling trees.
I have never seen a shagbark hickory between Roanoke and the coast, more than 200 miles away, but it occurs freely to within two or three miles on the west.
The Beaver hybrid hickory is probably next for nut production satisfaction, grafts well on bitternut root but does not seem to have a long life.
If such an organization can offer farmers and all others interested in nuts and conservation a better walnut, filbert, hickory or chestnut suitable for Ohio soils and Ohio climate the effort would seem worth while.
We therefore can recommend the Weschcke hickory freely.
The whole together produced $83; to which must be added the ten peach-trees, all which I had thinned out when the fruit was the size of hickory nuts, and with the same success as the previous year.
When as large as hickory nuts, I began the operation of removing all the smallest, and of thinning out unsparingly wherever they were excessively crowded.
When the peaches had grown as large as a hickory nut, he employed a large force and put on one hundred and eighty-five days’ work in picking off the excess of fruit.
I could not bend it, for it was fast at the top; but when my hour of adventure was come, I would tie a handkerchief round the two bars and twist it with the piece of hickory used for stirring the fire.
I saw women armed with sickles and iron forks, and lads bearing axes and hickory poles cut to a point like a spear, while blunderbusses were in plenty.
There are several kinds of hickory which produce sweet, edible nuts, but the nuts of the true shagbark are the best.
Hickory nuts have a husk as every country child knows; but the husk has a good-natured habit of splitting neatly into four equal parts which fall away from the nut when dry.
A lump of cyanide of potassium as big as a hickory nut for the small bottle, two or a little more for the big bottle.
The value of hickory wood in the making of tools and for fuel has made the lumber more profitable than the nuts.
Pecan orchards are being planted in many regions and hickory nuts are being studied with a view to improving the kernel and reducing the hardness of the shell.
Every boy knows that the hickory nuts on one particular shell-bark are bigger and sweeter than on every other one he knows of.
Somebody had crept up behind the big old hickorytree on the bank and had knotted Red's clothes tightly.
It was no wonder that they swam to the bank and scrambled up to the big hickory to find out whose clothes were missing.
And one day, when Johnnie Green and his friends were swimming in the mill pond he even took a bundle of clothes from beneath a big hickory on the bank.
And long before he could cross it Red had snatched up Johnnie's clothes from the shade of the hickory and dodged into the bushes with them.
It is usually from five to six feet in length, made of a simple piece of yew or of lance-wood and hickory glued together back to back.
It has a wooden head and a long, springy, hickory handle.
Jim's right hand slipped quietly inside his hickory shirt, where the button was missing, as he drawled, "My girl always was too good for some folks.
Without a word, Jim's right hand crept stealthily inside his hickory shirt, where a button was missing.
As he finished, Jim stood with his back to the corner of the room, his hand inside of the hickory shirt where the button was missing.
Like a flash Jim's hand was withdrawn from inside the hickory shirt, and the giant looked squarely into the muzzle of Jim Lane's ever ready, murderous weapon.
Below the right-hand end of this cliff, a huge hickory tree was growing, and its shaggy top just reared itself above the shelf on which I stood, the trunk being about eight feet from the edge of the cliff.
By way of a curtain top a hickory post had been sunk in the floor and bent over the bed, the end being fixed in the log wall.
I reckon she'll have to set her house in order with a hickory stick.
They whittled into smooth shape the stout hickory handles for a thousand iron pikes, which Blair, the blacksmith of Collinsville, Connecticut, had finally delivered.
He measured its long stiletto-like blade, projecting nine inches from its fastenings in the hickory handle.
Over the hill yonder," replies the man, pointing with his hickory whip-stock.
The long straight hickory switches--which served as horses--were arranged with their butts on a rotting log, whereon some grass was spread for their feed.
He had dreaded the general's visit, yet he knew that it must come, and he pulled toward the general a big hickory chair.
After many days of marching and fighting they lay once more in the shadow of the mountains, within a great grove of oak and beech, hickory and maple.
They crossed the Appomattox, and then advanced on the Hickory road on the north side of the river.
Then we get the stoutest ash or hickory poles, green and strong, and lay across the top of them midway between the holes, and bind them to the timber with well seasoned hickory bows and wooden pins.
The long hickory with which he tapped the ground as he walked might have been the staff of a biblical pilgrim, and they chatted affably until he reached the question inevitable in all wayside meetings among hillmen.
But his eyes were shrewd and bold, and he carried himself with a sort of innate dignity despite the threadbare poorness of patched trousers and hickory shirt, and he tramped the snowy hills coatless with ankles innocent of socks.
Rock elm" and "hickory elm" are names that refer to the hardness of the wood.
The twigs hold erect in the winter a multitude of buds, large, squat, enclosed in four scales, like the husk of a hickory nut.
Nothing looks more flower-like than these opening hickory buds, and to the unobserving passerby the transformation is nothing short of a miracle.
The pecan tree bears the best nuts in the hickory family.
King nuts," as the fruit of this tree is labelled in the markets, do not equal the little hickory nuts in quality, and their thick shells cover meats very little larger.
Riddled and torn, they drop in desultory fashion, their faded yellow not at all like the satisfying gold of beech and hickory leaves.
Spread for a few weeks, where they can dry, and thieving squirrels will let them alone, hickory nuts reach perfect condition for eating.
Hickory wood is unequalled for implements which must resist great strain and constant jarring.
The handle should be straight-grained hickory and before buying it you will run your eye along it to see that the helve is not warped or twisted and that there are no knots or bad places in it.
Lacrosse sticks cost from two to five dollars each and are made of hickory with rawhide strings.
The wooden clubs are usually made with either dogwood or persimmon heads and with split hickory handles or shafts.
The white hickory you know, yields the purest and sweetest of saccharine juices.
They had their hickory fuel cut into short billets, which before placing on the fire they laid on the andirons, a little in front of the blaze, so as to subject it to a pretty strong heat.
The cavalry that went out yesterday reported a large force of rebel cavalry on the Hickory Flats, and I expect that we are going out there," was the reply.
General, with emphasis, "do you come here and tell me that you have been down on the Hickory Flats, and that there is no rebel cavalry there?
I went right where you told me to go--out to Hickory Flats, and back, by way of Middleburg, to camp.
The object of my trip was to examine thoroughly the Hickory Flats and its vicinity for any such detachments.
The first time that I went out for General Hurlbut, he told me that he wanted I should go out to the Hickory Flats, and scout all over the flats and see if I could find any rebel cavalry.
I came down on the Somerville road, across the Hickory flats, by the old man Pruett's, and then over on to the Salem and Grand Junction road.
In the Kansas River flood plain and small tributary valleys, rich mesophytic forest of predominantly oak-hickory type was present.
Except in minor details, shagbark hickory conforms to the same distribution pattern on this area.
Chestnut oak and hickory are most abundant on north slopes, and ash occurs mainly on north slopes.
Especially on formerly cut-over north slopes, where oak and hickory have sprung up in a dense stand 20 feet high, with a thick canopy, most of the dogwoods have been eliminated.
Hickory usually has a trunk diameter of less than one foot, and, therefore, it is not prominent anywhere among the larger trees.
Under original conditions mature trees of oak and hickory dominated the forest.
Shagbark hickory is one of the more important hardwoods of the area.
On the area the distribution of these large elms corresponds in a general way with the present distribution of the oak-hickory type.
Table 2, showing ratios of medium-small trees (more than 6 inches and less than one foot in trunk diameter) demonstrates that hickory is one of the more prominent trees on hilltops and on slopes other than those of south exposure.
Old Hickory and his family went along with Strongarm and his family, and the children ran through the bushes and scared up the wild rabbits and porcupines.
Many leaves of oak, maple, poplar, and hickory fell upon clayey soil and left their imprints; and the clay afterwards turned to stone, and the imprints show us that the forests of the cave men were like our own.
Strongarm turned round where he sat and pulled up a little hickory tree.
A strong-armed artilleryman is energetically thrashing a dejected looking individual with a hickory bush, and urging him to the front.
Having these, the most skillful axeman of the mess hewed down a fine hickory or oak, and cut it into "lengths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hickory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
