The mockernut (Carya alba) and the pignut (Carya glabra) occur along the north shore of Lake Erie and along Lake St. Clair.
The mockernut is not of much value as a nut tree but the wood is considered to be superior to other species of hickory.
The mockernut is a mockery to him who hopes for nuts like those of either shagbark.
As a shade tree, the mockernut has real value, showing in winter a tall, slender pyramidal form, with large terminal buds tipping the velvety, resinous twigs.
Mockernut leaves are large, downy, yellow-green, turning to gold in autumn.
The mockernut hickory occurs about anywhere on the poor, acid, clay soils of the south, its vigor depending on fertility.
I should reply that the chestnut leads the list, followed closely by the mockernut hickory.
Note: Mr. Stoke showed the group a picture of a mockernut tree in one of his fields which he had girdled to kill it.
The pignut and the mockernut hickories are found in the southern hardwood belt along Lake Erie.
By the spring of 1924, all grafts on mockernut had died except the Barnes, the Gobble and the Long Beach, and each of these is thought to have mockernut parentage.
The pignut and mockernut apparently stand midway between the bitternut and the shagbark in respect to the trimming of the top.
He also has a mockernut tree top worked at the same time with Kirtland and which set some nuts in 1919 but which dropped off before maturity.
These are the shagbark, the shellbark, the sweet hickory, the pignut, the mockernut and the bitternut.
In 1933 I top-worked a mockernut with ten grafts of the Barnes.
Deming: This is said to be a shagbark x mockernut hybrid but I see no reason for the belief.
Deming: This is undoubtedly a Shagbark--mockernut hybrid.
Other characters: The bark is close like that of themockernut hickory.
The smooth bark of themockernut hickory contrasts greatly with the shaggy bark of the shagbark hickory--members of the same family and yet how different.
The bitternut (Hicoria minima) can be told from the mockernut and other species of hickory by its bud, which has no scales at all.
Soil and location: The mockernut hickory grows on a great variety of soils, but prefers one which is rich and well-drained.
The bark is of a lighter shade than the bark of the mockernut hickory and the leaflets are more numerous than in any of the hickories, varying from 7 to 11.
All of my stocks are of the mockernut type, varying from three-fourths to two inches in diameter, except a few trees to which I refer specially as T.
Another thing disappointing so far is in the seeming poorness of the mockernut as a stock.
Dunstan also reports a Mahan pecan grafted on a white or mockernut hickory stock that produces heavy crops of well-filled nuts.
STOKE: I have been growing it on mockernut or white hickory.
It is of little value as a nursery stock, but if one has young mockernut trees growing where hickory trees are wanted, they would be somewhat better to graft than would pignut trees.
In fact, I have several varieties on mockernut that haven't borne yet.
Elsewhere the pignut and the mockernut are called "hickory.
For example, in the 1918 Contest, three shellbarks and one mockernut came into the prize winning class, whereupon a special lot of prizes for shellbarks and mockernuts were given.
The shagbark hickory, in my experience, has done best upon stocks of the shagbark or mockernut or pignut.
Why the offspring of such thick shelled nuts as the shellbark or the mockernut and the shagbark should be thin shelled, is more than I can imagine.
There are a number of facts to suggest that some of our very thin shelled hickories, which at first sight seem to be shagbarks, are hybrids of which the shellbark ormockernut is one parent.
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