[Magdalen] Horticulture.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ugly and inedible for humans.  However, the wood apparently was highly
prized by the Native Americans for bows and was also used for furniture.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> We always called them "hedge apples" growing up in Indiana, where they were
> very hardy, too. Also on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Ugly fruit
> that looks like a green brain.
>
> On Saturday, September 3, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We have Osage Oranges in our neighborhood here in the Shenandoah, and
> they
> > are hardy as hell here (6b? although this summer was a 7 for sure!). One
> of
> > my co-artists at the gallery makes a lovely dye from the bark. They do
> have
> > a nasty thorn though.
> >
> > We have seen a rare Cedar Waxwing at our feeder. It was either on
> migration
> > or dreadfully off course. My friend Cathy's son once shot one in
> Tennessee.
> > He did not intend to and in fact was shooting at a squirrel and missed.
> He
> > felt dreadful because it was so pretty.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It's amazing what they will pack into the little monthly,
> "Horticulture"
> > > magazine.
> > >
> > > There are articles in the current issue about:
> > >
> > > (1) The tropical Abbey Gardens on Tresco, one of the Scilly
> > > Islands off the Cornwall coast of extreme SW England.  There is
> > > an immense collection of tender and often rare species.  I've
> > > wanted for a long time to tour these islands which are frost
> > > free secondary to being surrounded by the Gulf Stream.
> > >
> > > (2) The Osage Orange tree (Maclura pomifera) which in its native
> > > area is found only in East Texas and adjoining Oklahoma and
> > > Arkansas.  A few specimens were planted in the Eastern USA
> > > where the largest individuals of the species are found on the
> properties
> > > of some of the plantation owners (Jefferson, Washington, Henry).
> > > I have a feeling this attractive tree would not be hardy here in zone
> > > 6a, but I'm going to check into it.
> > >
> > > (3) Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum).  I haven't had any in
> > > this area of Pennsylvania, but they were commonly seen in the Upper
> > > Midwest because of the great number of flowering  crabapples bearing
> > > fruit there.  In their usual flock activity, they can strip a crab of
> > > fruit
> > > in 5 minutes.
> > >
> > > David S.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>



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Grace Cangialosi
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