HERB - Moths, spiders, etc

[SCOTT A WAGGONER]

You can call them hedge apples, osage orange, same thing, but where do
you find them here in Texas?
Raven

On Thu, 7 May 1998 13:55:28 -0500 (EST) Sara Harless <evaine at glenmar.com>
writes:
>
>On Thu, 7 May 1998, Gaylin Walli wrote:
>
>> Sara wrote:
>> >As for herbs, I have found hedge apples to be very good spider and
>> >creepy-crawly deterrents. I put them in the window sills. They 
>don't seem
>> >to mold or rot, they just kind of dry up over the summer and fall. 
>It
>> >really cut down on the inside bug population.
>> 
>> Hedge Apple? (jasmine cruises through her meager references at
>> work and finds nothing) Same thing as Osage Orange, right? Maclura
>> something as part of the botanical name. pomifera? A new world 
>plant,
>> as I remember it. Bummer.
>
>Duh...It's definitely my Hoosier accent. <grin> If it is Osage Orange, 
>I 
>know some bow makers who will want this info. I'll see if I can 
>contact 
>my forestry-type friend tonight. I will see her Monday at the weekly 
>barony meeting for sure and can ask then.
>
>> You know what I really wish we had? A comprehensive reference of
>> plants that are listed in original source material and any other
>> period source material, including a listing of their current
>> botanical and any previous botanicals they might have had. Anyone
>> know of one?
>
>I smell a project here. This would be a big help to those of us (me) 
>who
>are just starting our remedial plant education. Not even hard, just a
>standard cross-referenced index listing with two or three sort keys 
>and a
>notes field. Does anyone know if such a thing exists either in whole 
>or in
>part? Surely someone has needed this type of info before. Or I can 
>build
>it from scratch if you good gentles will supply the raw data. (Did I 
>just
>type what I think I just typed?) Oh, dear, here we go again. <vbg> So 
>much
>for retirement! 
>
>> jasmine de cordoba, Midrealm
>
>MidRealm? Where? I'm in the Barony of Rivenstar, that's West 
>Lafayette, IN.
>
>Sara/Evaine
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