Little Pomp was on all fours, hunting for nuts among the fallen leaves under the shagbark-tree.
"Frank's Campaign or the Farm and the Camp"
Horatio Alger, Jr.
The timber or the European species, when straight-grained, and clear, or free from knots, is, for ordinary purposes, better than that of the American black walnut, but bears no comparison with the wood of the hickory, when strength combined with elasticity is required, and its nut is very inferior in taste to that of the shagbark, as well as to the butternut, which it somewhat resembles.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
The nuts are nearly as pale as in the shagbark, conspicuously brown striped, slightly 4-celled at the very base, and with a wall only 1 mm.
"The Pecan and its Culture"
H. Harold Hume