I attacked the pignut hickory with great energy to make up for lost time.
For my part, I never fail to show him the pignut hickory where my first golden-winged warbler spoke to me one May morning.
Neilson: A Fairbanks grafted on a pignut in the spring of 1931 at the Kellogg estate has quite a few nuts on it this season.
Smoother foliage and twigs, smaller buds in winter, and a more regular round head make the pignut a fine tree to plant on the lawn, where the shagbark would be out of place, on account of its shaggy, untidy trunk.
The pignut has the same habit of clustering its three largest leaves at the tip of the leaf stem, and tapering off at the base with one or two pairs of decreasing size.
The pignut has clean, smooth, grey bark, becoming coarser and rougher with increasing age, but never shedding its bark in ragged strips as the shagbark begins to do when the trees are still young.
A look at the bark of a shagbark hickory, and then at a pignut fixes in mind one of the chief differences between these trees.
He stated thatpignut was absolutely useless as a stock for shagbark.
Young stocks of either the pecan or pignut hickory hold their sap much later than does the shagbark and are in good condition for budding after the shagbark is dormant.
We have not experienced any serious difficulty from an extreme flow of sap in pecan stocks, either in the North or South, but we have had grafts set on the pignut hickory fail from this cause.
Our first year's grafting was done in a plot of practically pure pignut stocks.
The grafts of Davis grew on pignut stocks, are still alive and doing fairly well.
I believe that for some reason grafts of shagbark on pignut stocks cannot stand cold weather.
This species is also nearly worthless as a stock for shagbark, shell bark, and hybrids, although many more varieties will live on it than will on pignut stocks.
Grafts of all other varieties which were on the pignutstocks died the next spring.
If nut growers have some pignut stocks growing where they especially wish to have some good hickory trees, they can graft them to Davis.
The seeds (kernels) of the English walnut, butternut, black walnut and shagbark hickory are edible and greatly relished, while those of the bitter and pignut hickories are not edible.
There are no hickory trees within thirty miles of the vicinity to my knowledge, and the nearest pignut tree is perhaps three-quarters of a mile distant, in a direction against the prevailing winds, the intervening space being forest.
The pignut and the mockernut hickories are found in the southern hardwood belt along Lake Erie.
Those on the pignut stock practically all caught and made short growth and then began to wilt back.
So long as it already covers two species in the North as opposed to one in the South, there are already two votes to one in favor of retaining the name pignut for Carya glabra and Carya ovalis.
A name so well established, will have to be retained, but in our Association it will perhaps be best to have an understanding about which one of the hickories the common name pignut should belong.
It refused to thrive on the pignut which did not represent either one of its parents although that same pignut stock would have been accepted by shagbark scions--the shagbark representing the other parent of the Beaver.
We may describe these in plain language as the smooth-bark pignut and the loose-bark pignut.
Elsewhere the pignut and the mockernut are called "hickory.
The mockernut (Carya alba) and the pignut (Carya glabra) occur along the north shore of Lake Erie and along Lake St. Clair.
The shagbark, the bitternut, the pignut and mockernut.
The pignut is generally a small tree which produces nuts of variable size, form and flavor.
Yet five of these trees from a steep, dry south slope in West Virginia had an average strength fully equal to that of the pignut from the better situation, and were superior in toughness, the work to maximum load being 36.
It is called small pignut in Maryland, and occasionally little shagbark.
The pignut is a forked tree more frequently than any other species of hickory; and the nuts vary in shape and size more than those of any other.
The wood differs little from that of pignut hickory, and the uses are the same.
No variety as strikingly adapted for use on the pignut has appeared, but there are a number that have shown fair adaptability.
In the ease of those on pignut and pecan stocks there was no loss from 1923 and in some instances at least of those on shagbark and bitternut stocks the loss was due to outside causes, such as being broken off.
It is the only variety we have ever succeeded in making live on pignut stocks.
While the grafts are slower growing on pignut stocks, they have lived for several years and have borne nuts.
I don't know what the reason for it is, that one is fit to eat, and the other isn't, when they are both hybrids between the pignut and the pecan.
The pignut characteristics are very prominent, also the pecan characteristics.
The pignut deserves the better name, "smooth hickory," a more ingratiating introduction to strangers.
Country boys scorn the pignut trees, leaving their fruit for eager but unsophisticated nut-gatherers from the towns.
The range of the pignut is from Maine to Florida on the Atlantic seaboard, west to the middle of Nebraska and Texas, and from Ontario and Michigan south to the Gulf.
The thin outer husk of the pignut is not much larger than the nut.
However if one has some nice young pignut trees growing where he wants them, it is feasible to graft them to Davis or some other variety which has proven its ability to grow on pignut stocks.
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.
We have grafted many of the named varieties of hickory onto pignut stocks, using several thousand scions.
We have found only one variety (the Davis shagbark) that will grow on pignut stock.
However, I have observed a very fewpignut trees having smooth bark and five leaflets per leaf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pignut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
