the mocker nut and bitternut
*Stratford hybrid (bitternut by shagbark)
*Creager

*Have produced mature nuts

There are three or four others that are hardy but all means of
identification having been lost, it will be necessary to wait until they
come into bearing before their varieties will be known. As experiments
continue, more varieties of worthy, hardy hickories and hiccans will be
found which will justify completely the opinion of those of us who
always hail as king of all our native nuts, the hickory.

[Illustration: _1930--Weschcke Hickory as borne by parent tree at
Fayette, Iowa._

_1939--After several years of bearing grafted on Northern Bitternut
hickory at River Falls, Wis._

_1940--Still further change in shape and size from graft on Bitternut._

_1941--Change and increase in size now is so pronounced as to almost
extinguish its original identity._]

[Illustration: _Weschcke hickory nut natural size shows free splitting
hull. Photo by C. Weschcke._]