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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> let's see. Horse Apples are odd green things that
> grow on a  thorn- 
> filled odd looking tree, and are supposed to keep
> something bad out of  
> your cellar if you put the horse apple in there. 

That sounds like the fruit of the Osage Organge ..
which we called "hedge apples".   I guess we might
have called them "hedge oranges" if we had ever seen
the fruit of the sour Orange.   
They were great for throwing at brothers... As long as
one could run faster and further than said brother.
Van Dell