It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed. ❋ John Albee (1874)
The shagbark is the nut most sought for by the younger generations and bids fair to become a nut of considerable importance. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In each case the shagbark was the preferred species. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Within the single species of nut tree called shagbark hickory, _Carya ovata_ (Mill.) ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The shagbark is a slower growing tree than the pecan, but when properly cultivated shows a very satisfactory growth. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The shagbark was the walnut of the market, a nut with a rich, oily kernel; the pignut was smaller with a very thick shell and correspondingly small meat, hard to separate from the shell. ❋ John Albee (1874)
It is advised that the Association take an arbitrary stand on the nomenclature and state our choice of the name "shagbark" for _Hicoria ovata_, ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The shagbark which is the most valuable nut producer of all the hickories, is rather widely distributed particularly in northern and central Missouri. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I do not remember to have met the "shagbark" in poetry before, or that gray lichen-covered stone wall which occurs farther along in the same poem, and which is so characteristic of the older farms of ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
He was killed because he wouldn't stand that the worlds peace be built on a lie. shagbark ❋ Unknown (2009)
I used to cut hickory for barbecue pts and that was a mighty hard wood - shagbark, if you didn't clear that shag a little bit before you started bucking - would dull a chain in minutes. ❋ JayCassell (2009)
Same as they liked sweet alfalfa, and shagbark hickory nuts. ❋ Thomas Pluck (2012)
Yea, though Iapetus walk through the valorization of the shagbark of deathwatch ❋ Bobbi Lurie (2011)
Widespread dominants are white oak, red oak, black oak, bitternut hickory, and shagbark hickory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Birches, shagbark hickories, and white pines gently swaying in the breeze. ❋ Will (2009)
Upland forests are typically dominated by white oak, black oak, and shagbark hickory. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Common tree species within the area include white pine, red oak, red pine, hemlock, red maple, quaking aspen and shagbark hickory. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He [cheated on] you? [What a] shagbark! ❋ Green Tea And Hot Chocolate (2014)
