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s going to talk about the hickories. Mr. Stoke. MR. STOKE: They delegated the job to the Survey Committee to make a hickory survey for this year, using the different state and provincial and national vice-presidents to collect the data. I am going to read this. The 1952 Hickory Survey By the Survey Committee H. F. STOKE, _Chairman_ In compiling this report the pecan has been omitted from the list. As it is the most important member of the hickory group it was felt that the national and state pecan associations are far more competent to compile complete and reliable data on the species than is this organization. The response by our vice-presidents to the questionnaire sent out has been rather disappointing, replies having been received from slightly less than half their number. It is apparent that interest in the hickory is considerably less than in the black walnut, which was surveyed in 1951. Perhaps the most beloved and widely distributed of the hickories is the shagbark, _Carya ovata_. It is reported from Massachusetts on the east to southeastern Minnesota, southward to Texas and eastward to the Carolinas where it mingles with and is sometimes confused with the scalybark. In the opinion of many the superb distinctive flavor of its nuts is not equaled by those of any species. The domain of the Shellbark or Kingnut _C. laciniosa_ lies within the same area but is slightly less extensive. Like the pecan, it is partial to the rich alluvial bottom lands along streams and is seldom found elsewhere. It occurs rarely in Virginia and North Carolina, and there only in the Appalachian area. The Scalybark or southern Shagbark, _C. Carolina septentrionalis_, is reported only by Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas. The White Hickory or Mockernut, _C. alba_, covers the South and is reported as far north as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana and, rarely, in Michigan. It is found from the Atlantic coast to east Texas. The widely distributed Bitternut, _C. cordiformis_, covers virtually the same territory as the shagbark. The Sweet Pignut, _C. glabra_, is reported from New Hampshire to Wisconsin and southward to North Carolina. Its south-westward occurrence has not been defined in reports received. In addition to these better-known species, the Water Hickory, _C. aquatica_, is reported from Louisiana, and the Black Hickory, _C. buckleyi_, from Indiana and Texas. In an unusually full report Ind
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