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[Jeffrey Boulier <boulierinasia@yahoo.com>]

Gene Stratton-Porter, in "Laddie", a semi-autobiographical book very loosely 
based on her childhood on a farm in Indiana shortly after the Civil War, 
wrote this:

"You could graft red haws on [apples], and grow great big, little haw-apples, 
that were the prettiest things you ever saw, and the best to eat"

Has anyone heard of this practice before? Any guesses as to what hawthorn 
species she might have been referring to? She was a self-taught naturalist, 
and I'm assuming that this wasn't a detail she'd fictionalized.

--Jeff

Humid & sticky Northern Virginia, Z6b/7a