[Magdalen] Horticulture.

[Don Boyd]

We had them in West Texas too, where they were called Bois D'arc apples (pronounced "BOW-dark").

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> On Sep 4, 2016, at 7:50 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> -- 
> Ann
> 
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu