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William Bartram wrote in 1773 about finding a cultivated plantation of hickory trees in the South. He found the nuts were used by the Indians for food and also were ground to make a "milk? to be mixed with sweet potatoes.
Recently H.C. Jones, Gulfport, while hunting along the Wolhonding River in the Wolhonding Valley in Ohio, found a hickory tree with large nuts of superior quality. He gave several of these nuts to Herald News Editor Tom Cook, who gave them to us.
Bartram, in his writings, commented on the variation in hickory trees and their fruits, some being much superior to others.
Jones hoped to develop superior hickory nuts from the trees of the nuts he secured. The nuts are of course the seed of the
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