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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIG . 2.—I, See also:

Fruit of Carya See also:alba; 2, Ilickocy See also:Nut; 3, See also:Cross See also:Section of Nut; 4, See also:Vertical Section of the See also:Seed. See also:hickory nuts of the See also:American markets are the produce of C. alba, called the See also:shell-hark hickory because of the roughness of its bark, which becomes loosened from the See also:trunk in See also:long scales bending outwards at the extremities and adhering only by the See also:middle. The nuts are much esteemed in all parts of the States, and are exported in considerable quantities to See also:Europe. The pecan-nuts, which come from the Western States, are from 1 in. to II- in. laiig, smooth, cylindrical, pointed at the ends and thin-shelled, with the kernels full, not like those of most of the hickories divided by partitions, and of delicate and agreeable flavour. The thick-shelled fruits of the pig-nut are generally See also:left on the ground for See also:swine, squirrels, &c., to devour. In C. amara the See also:kernel is so See also:bitter that even squirrels refuse to eat it.

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