shagbark

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.

Confessions of Boyhood John Albee 1874

In each case the shagbark was the preferred species.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

The shagbark is the nut most sought for by the younger generations and bids fair to become a nut of considerable importance.

Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917

The shagbark is a slower growing tree than the pecan, but when properly cultivated shows a very satisfactory growth.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

Within the single species of nut tree called shagbark hickory, _Carya ovata_ (Mill.)

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

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.

Confessions of Boyhood 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_,

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

The shagbark which is the most valuable nut producer of all the hickories, is rather widely distributed particularly in northern and central Missouri.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950

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

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

He was killed because he wouldn't stand that the worlds peace be built on a lie. shagbark

Pop Culture Alignment » E-Mail 2009