Smith: I would like to know something about the market for shagbarks and if the market is for cracked nuts.
The buds of the variety I have labelled as Cedar Rapids do not look like pure shagbarks and it is possible that a mix up has occurred in the labels.
For instance, the Barnes is one of the few shagbarks known to thrive on mockernut.
I do not know that any of the shagbarks or shellbark hybrids ever will rival that in production.
After 2 winters, these 7 seedlings are still with us and seem to grow faster than the shagbarks (ovata).
All the shagbarks and shellbarks are doing well, although only the young shagbarks are bearing, and then only lightly.
It is not suggested that these two thin-shelled nuts be exploited as paper-shelled shagbarks since they are poorly formed nuts and of small size.
Rootstocks and Interstocks for Hickories Reed(16) summarized the rootstock studies at Beltsville, Maryland, by stating that pecans were best on pecan seedlings and that shagbarks were successful on either shagbark or pecan rootstocks.
Smith(21), however, found that pecan stocks were unsuccessful for shagbarks as few scions lived and growth of those which survived was poor.
It is thinner shelled than most of the shagbarks that we would see in many days spent in the woods, but when we have for comparison some smaller nuts, we find shells very much thinner than the shell of the Hales.
In that way we would get rid of the less desirable varieties, just as with the hickories a thousand and one shagbarks that we find are not remarkable, and yet we will find here and there one that is worth grafting and propagating.
At this time of the year, one sees in fruiterers' shops in New York and other cities appetizing looking baskets, containing cracked shagbarks and pecans.
In fact, I have had some specimens of very beautiful shagbarks sent me by Dr.
Shagbarks which I have grafted upon bitternuts have sometimes made a remarkably good start.
Among the good shagbarks there are the Swaim, Weiker, Kentucky, Manahan, Taylor and Vest.
Then at the end of three or four years they begin to slow up, while shagbarks on shagbark stock, starting slowly at first, surpassed the ones on bitternut stock finally.
It is best I think to put shagbarkson shagbark or shellbark.
Most of the prizes are taken by shagbarks but when a nut not a shagbark gets into the prize winning class, we make a class that would include it.
While no nut is noted as a hybrid unless it has been so proven by evidence which it is believed is beyond question, there is considerable question as to whether a number of the nuts noted as shagbarks are really pure shagbarks.
The kernels of both these, walnuts and butternuts, and also of the best northern hickories, particularly the shagbarks and shellbarks, are highly palatable and nutritious.
In this contest the shagbarks showed up poorly, 68 being the highest score awarded, when from the number of entries one would have expected the highest to have been awarded 71 points or over.
It is one of a group of shagbarks with smaller leaves and buds, and thinner husks than are found in what we would call a typical shagbark.
REED: The shellbarks and shagbarks are among the finest looking trees in Washington.
The shagbarks might be divided into several species and be as distinct as some of the species of other trees, such as the ash for example.
These nearer woods held in nut trees moreshagbarks than of any other nut variety, with the bitter hickory nut coming in second place.
We fancied that we could detect bitternut flavor in good shagbarks about the plantings, due to xenia influence, as in the case of chestnuts.
The Glover shagbark hickory, from Connecticut, which was introduced by Mr. Jones in 1918, is undoubtedly one of the best shagbarks yet propagated.
Too often shagbarks fail to unite with bitternut and frequently they are short-lived.
I have quite a collection of the better known grafted shagbarks on my woodland.
Most shagbarks have five leaflets; this one has seven quite as often, and the leaf is about a foot long.
Pecan pollen that I wish to use uponshagbarks and walnuts I get from Texas.
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