The name bitternut may safely be allowed to remain with Carya cordiformis because the other two nuts with bitter pellicle already have distinctive names, Carya aquatica being called water hickory and Carya texana being called bitter pecan. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ Carl Weschcke (1933)
Widespread dominants are white oak, red oak, black oak, bitternut hickory, and shagbark hickory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The human condition put names to everything: bloodroot rockflower whip-poor-will, tulip bitternut hackberry. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mesic slopes have closed forests that are dominated by sugar maple, bitternut hickory, yellow-poplar, and beech. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The upland forests of Ecoregion 72g are species-rich, and contain oaks, sugar maple, bitternut hickory, and basswood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I have made crosses back and forth between shagbark, bitternut, mocker-nut, pignut, and pecan. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
THE PRESIDENT: Isn't the bitternut several times as rapid in growth as the shagbark, or some others? ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I have secured fertile hybrids between the pecan and the bitternut and between the pecan and the shagbark. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The open-bud hickories, comprising the pecan, the bitternut, the water hickory, and the nutmeg hickory, apparently, from my experiments, cross much more readily among each other than they cross with the scale-bud hickories. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In regard to crossing hickories and walnuts, I have crossed back and forth several of the walnuts, our black walnut, our butternut, the Siebold walnut, with the pecan, and with the bitternut, and have fertile hybrids. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This tree bore a full crop of pignuts, (Hicoria glabra) evidently pollinized on one side by the bitternut and on the other side by the shagbark These points are made for the purpose of showing the necessity of covering the female flowers with bags in our nut tree hybridizations. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Stocks of rapidly growing hickories, like the pecan and the bitternut, may serve to shorten the bearing time of slowly growing species, like the shagbark, when scions of the latter are grafted upon such stocks. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This would seem to indicate that there are possibilities for some of the pecan-bitternut and pecan-shagbark hybrids in southern Ontario where the shagbark and the bitternut grow quite freely. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
All there are have been upon the bitternut from the start. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
If you wish to grow the shagbark hickory (_Hicoria ovata_) plant the best specimens of this nut you can get, or the bitternut (_H. minima_) which is said to be a superior stock for grafting. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I have thirty-two crosses between the bitternut hickory and our common butternut, growing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
On one side of this tree was a bitternut; on the other side a shagbark. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The grafting was done by Dr. Deming, on May 29, 30,31 and June 1 of this year, 31 grafts being set on shagbark stock, 52 on mockernut, 53 on pignut, 47 on pecan and 91 on bitternut, a total of 274. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
At the present time I have shagbark grafted upon stocks of the pecan, shagbark, bitternut, mocker-nut, and pignut, but these are all young, and I cannot at the present time discern much difference in effect of stock upon scion. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
