HERB - Moths, spiders, etc

[SCOTT A WAGGONER]

hedge apples, osage orange, horse apples are the same thing
Raven

On Thu, 7 May 1998 13:25:14 -0500 (EST) Sara Harless <evaine at glenmar.com>
writes:
>
>On Fri, 8 May 1998, ND Wederstrandt wrote:
>
>> Are you talking about horse apples/ bois d'arc fruit?  It's supposed 
>to be
>> a good remeby to throw them under your bed to rid yourself of fleas 
>and bed
>> bugs.... There's a big tree that drops fruit near my house. I've 
>thought
>> about trying it.  Someone said that bois d'arc chips gets rids of 
>pests as
>> well.
>> 
>> Clare
>
>Could be. I speak with a Hoosier accent. These hedge apples are about 
>the 
>size of a grapefruit, with yellow bumpy rinds. The rind was textured 
>like 
>the oranges with thick rinds, not smoothe. They made horrid noises in 
>the 
>lawn mower if I hit one. The trees they fell from were very similar in 
>
>shape and size to the mulberry trees in back of the school. Oh, and 
>the 
>mulberries made wonderful jelly, jams, and pies. They were good eating 
>
>"as is" as soon as they ripened from red to dark red/blue/brown.
>
>I wish I could be more specific but I had no interest in plants and 
>botony until my daughter became a vegetarian and my arthritis 
>progressed 
>from minor nuisance to "you can't scout at war anymore". I'll see if I 
>
>can get something more specific from a forestry-major friend next 
>week.
>Gads, do I have a lot to learn!
>
>Sara/Evaine
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