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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] osage orange hedge

The only one I can remember by name is "A Reverence For Wood" by Eric Sloane.  The book is about 40 years old, though, and surely long out of print.  I'm sure someone else on the list knows of some actual quotable reference.  I've read more than one that talked about homesteaders planting posts of osage orange and having them grow into trees.  Granted, this was in places like Texas with a warm climate and plenty of summer rainfall.  Here in Oregon the darn stuff hardly grows.  
-Lon Rombough
> From: "Peter Knop" <knop@erols.com>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:06:33 -0500
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] osage orange hedge

> Lon, VERY interested in your comment - I have not tried rooting osage orange
> (wonder why that did not occur to me - roots sprout like wild when cut, so
> branches might root easily.....)
>     In any event,every reference I have seen, talks abut seeds.  I have a
> book only on hedges which devotes a good part of it to osage (published
> 1869) and it only talks about seed.  If you could provide any references, I
> would most appreciate it.
>           Peter, zone 7, N VA Chantilly> Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:22:00 -0800
> > From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bletting and storage Maclura and Poncirus
> > To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Message-ID: <BC5C2AF8.19979%lonrom@hevanet.com>
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> >
> > Is it necessary to use seed?  Most of the old references talk about living
> > fences of Osage Orange resulting from just pushing pieces of the stuff
> into
> > the ground so they would root and grow.  If that's the case, seems like
> you
> > would be ahead of the game to line out cuttings.
> > -Lon Rombough
> >
> >  On the Osage (Maclura pomifera), MANY of the seeds have already rotted
> > (or been infested with some sort of tiny bug??). If the fruit is still
> > greenish/yellowish, seeds seem to be fine, BUT hard to separate.  Any
> > suggestions on separation, as well as storage?  We would like to hold some
> > over for next year - not to mention next year we want to harvest a lot
> more
> > and to prevent the losses we have had this year to "rot" or "bugs" will
> > "process" sooner and then store the seed.
>
>
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