"scalybark" to the Carolina hickory, the name "shagbark" to Carya ovata, and the name shellbark to Carya laciniosa. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The shellbark is a tree the best varieties of which it is difficult to learn about. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The names "shellbark," "shagbark" and "scalybark" are at present used interchangeably by authors for different species of the hickory. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The abbreviations used under the species column are: P for pecan (Carya pecan), PxL for pecan x shellbark hybrid (Carya pecan x laciniosa). ❋ Unknown (N/A)
(Carya ovata), L for shellbark (Carya laciniosa), and B for bitternut ❋ Unknown (N/A)
We have not tried shellbark on it, except Berger which grows well on it. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I have never tested a Persian walnut where the cracking pressure runs much over 40kg and it is rather unusual for a Japan walnut to run much over 200kg, yet Cording is 419kg, a strength of shell greater than that of any other nut sent into the contest this year and which is only found among black walnuts and shellbark hickories. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The true shellbark is not found in Michigan and would probably not succeed there as well as do others. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The following standards for hickories have been established: The largest nut found so far is still the Mott shellbark, which Dr. Morris found a number of years ago and which weighs 29. 6g. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Seven of these belong to the scale bud class, _Eucarya_, the shagbark, _Carya ovata_, the shellbark, _Carya laciniosa_, the scaly bark, _Carya ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Take the hickory for example; we have shellbark hickory nuts nearly three times the size of the best southern pecans; we have bitternut hickory nuts with a proportion of kernel greater than that of any pecan and with shell so thin, that they can be cracked with less pressure than any pecans I have ever seen; we have in the best shagbarks, flavor of kernel unsurpassed in any nut. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
At the time of writing, low grade seedling shellbark nuts from the West are selling in the retail market in New York for forty cents a pound. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The following standards for pecans have been established (including the pecan x shellbark hybrids which generally resemble pecans in flavor and appearance and would be classed with them). ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It is best I think to put shagbarks on shagbark or shellbark. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The Mott shellbark hickory which weighs 29. 6g which was discovered by Dr. Morris before the founding of the Association is still the largest hickory of which we know. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In character of growth, the shellbark is much like the shagbark but the nuts are much larger, and the shells extremely thick. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In the open-bud group, the trunk of the water hickory carries long loose bark strips attached by one end, and in the closed-bud group, we find this characteristic belonging to the shagbark, shellbark, Carolina hickory, and to one of the pignuts, Carya ovalis. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
For their rich, delicious nuts, alone, saying nothing about their clean, handsome foliage, their rough, strong wood -- the best of any grown for many purposes -- the hickories, among which are the Shagbark (_Carya ovata_) and the big shellbark (_Carya laciniosa_), should be planted in many places. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Beside the hickories noted above which received a sufficient number of points to entitle them to one of the eight prizes awarded the measurements are given of the Hatch and Halesite bitternuts because they have the thinnest shell and highest proportion of kernel of any hickories yet discovered and of the Stanley hickory because it is the best shellbark of which we yet know. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
