Subject
More on shagbark
From
Date
Body
Jansy,
A few notes on the Shagbark Hickory:
A good web resource can be found here:
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_2/carya/ovata.htm
1. It is impossible to mistake a hickory tree for a juniper. They look
nothing alike. It's true that some junipers have a shaggy bark, but the
resemblances stop there.
2. According to the website above, a 60 yr old shagbark in the area of
New
Wye would be approximately 8 inches in diameter and 58 feet in height.
Plenty of size there to support a baby swing, I'd think.
3. It has prominent (4-6 inch) catkins (doesn't the word "ament" appear
somewhere in PF?) and edible nuts.
Matt Roth
----------
Correction from Jansy:
I had made a mistake while confusing hickory and juniper. And, yet, as
Anthony Stadlen cryptically pointed out, I was - - involuntarily - -
correct.
Although Kinbote called Shade's shagbark a hickory, he might have been
deceiving us (or would it have been Shade's fault? Would he be as
unreliable as Kinbote?) . There is a shagbark juniper, that looks like a
pine and grows in... Utah.
From the pictures I saw in the internet it might hold a swing and it
might be the pine where Shade discovered the cicada jewel case sticking
to its bark! ( this reference to a "pine" I'm adding here only from
memory, I didn't check it again).
Jansy Mello
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
A few notes on the Shagbark Hickory:
A good web resource can be found here:
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_2/carya/ovata.htm
1. It is impossible to mistake a hickory tree for a juniper. They look
nothing alike. It's true that some junipers have a shaggy bark, but the
resemblances stop there.
2. According to the website above, a 60 yr old shagbark in the area of
New
Wye would be approximately 8 inches in diameter and 58 feet in height.
Plenty of size there to support a baby swing, I'd think.
3. It has prominent (4-6 inch) catkins (doesn't the word "ament" appear
somewhere in PF?) and edible nuts.
Matt Roth
----------
Correction from Jansy:
I had made a mistake while confusing hickory and juniper. And, yet, as
Anthony Stadlen cryptically pointed out, I was - - involuntarily - -
correct.
Although Kinbote called Shade's shagbark a hickory, he might have been
deceiving us (or would it have been Shade's fault? Would he be as
unreliable as Kinbote?) . There is a shagbark juniper, that looks like a
pine and grows in... Utah.
From the pictures I saw in the internet it might hold a swing and it
might be the pine where Shade discovered the cicada jewel case sticking
to its bark! ( this reference to a "pine" I'm adding here only from
memory, I didn't check it again).
Jansy Mello
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm