[Magdalen] Horticulture.

[Sibyl Smirl]

It's a very useful tree, cattle-proof as a hedge fence (thorny, 
remember) with a whole row of them planted closely, as a bright yellow 
natural dye, and the ideal bow wood.  My dad made a couple of bows from 
hedge wood, and they worked better than the ones we bought.  It's too 
heavy for arrows, though, a very dense wood.  I never could figure out, 
after that kid won her Fair prize, with the publicity, why none of us 
knew that we could eat the "apples".  It also makes the best fence 
posts, because it takes forever for it to rot. It sort of deteriorates 
from the outside, very slowly, and the inside of the post just gets 
harder and harder.  Being so dense, it has a high heat efficiency 
content for firewood, but its' disadvantage there is that you want to 
have a closed stove and a very clean chimney, because it's like burning 
a package of firecrackers, almost.  It helps to be deaf, if you're 
burning hedge wood.

On 9/4/16 8:31 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/4/2016 9:16:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
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> On  9/4/16 7:53 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Ugly and inedible for  humans.  However, the wood apparently was highly
>> prized by the  Native Americans for bows and was also used for furniture.
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> Actually,  edible, sort of, with treatment involving grinding them.  I've
> never  done it: however, a girl won big in a Science Fair, quite some
> years ago,  producing a highly nutritious bread from them.  In a Science
> Fair,  that's serious Kitchen
> Chemistry!..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> There  are small plugs/seedlings available online, but, of course, they
> want  to
> ship them now.  I'll wait until late winter/early spring to place my  order.
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> David S.
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