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Fig. 99. Fairbanks hickory, a hybrid (bitternut x shagbark) from Iowa, grafted to pignut, C. Ovalis. Large leaves are a part of the stock. Grafted 1918; photographed 1924; bearing good crop of nuts. Note the rocks. Blue Ridge Mountains. (Photo B. W. Gahn.)—Fig. 100. Center. Beaver hickory grafted on pecan, 94 inches first season. (Courtesy S. H. Graham.)—Fig. 101. Right. Typical wild shagbark tree; typical rocks; typical Appalachian pasture-thousands of such pastures. There might be millions more of the trees. Picture taken near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Photo J. Russell Smith.)