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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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din 1799. The pig nut thrives very well in England. There is a specimennearly 80 ft. high at Kew which often bears good crops of fruit. Var. MiCkOCARPA, TrcleasCj has a more shaggy bark and smaller fruit,with a sweet kernel. C. SULCATA, Nuttall. Big Shell-bark. (Hicoria laciniosa, Sar^eii/.) A tree 100 to 120 ft. high; bark separating from the trunk into broadplates often 3 or 4 ft. long ; young shoots at first downy ; terminal winterbud I in. long. Leaves 12 to 22 ins. long, composed of usually seven,sometimes nine, leaflets, the terminal ones of which are obovate, 4 to 8ins. long, \\ to 2i ins. wide, the lower ones ovate and only one-third orone-fourth the size; all long and slender-pointed, toothed; smooth andglossy above, downy beneath. Male catkins 4 ins. or more long. Fruitoblong, 2\, ins. long, 2 ins. wide ; nut prominently four- or six-ridged. Native of the eastern United States from New York and E. Pennsylvaniasouthwards ; introduced to England in 1804. It is one of the least
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Carya tomentosa. •) (Face p. 801. CARYA—CARYOPTERIS 301 satisfactory of the hickories in cultivation. Mr Ehves knows only one ofany size, which is 30 ft. high, and grows in Tortworth Churchyard. C. TOMENTOSA, Nuttall. MOCKER NUT.(Hicoria alba, Britton.) A tree 50 to 60, occasionally 100, ft. high ; winter buds large, the terminalone broadly egg-shaped, pointed, \ to 4 in. long, and \ in. or more wide ; theinner scales covered with a soft pale felt ; young shoots very downy, especiallyat first. Leaves fragrant, 8 to 12 ins. (on very vigorous young trees 20 ins.)long ; composed usually of seven (sometimes five or nine) leaflets. Terminalleaflet is 5 to 8 ins. long, 2 to 4^; ins. wide, obovate, wedge-shaped at the base ;basal pair sometimes only \\ to 2 ins. long, ovate, rounded at the base ; themiddle pair or pairs are intermediate in size and shape. All taper-pointed,toothed, upper surface dark green, downy on the midrib; lower surfaceyellowish, and covered with starry down and gla

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