> Hi Bill, Also Mike Price and others -- well quite a group of comments
> about Osage Orange. After, I dropped my comments and went and tried to
> find my books without success but did find Petersen's "Western Trees" guide
> and it dealt with OO! The Remarks section said, "Once native in n. Texas,
> se Oklahoma and nearby Ark., home of the Osage indians, this species was
> widely planted for living fences before the invention of barbed wire.
> Because of its use in making bows, the French name bois d'arc (colloquilly
> "bodarc," "bodock") is still heard. Bark yields tannin; boiled wood chips
> yield yellow dye. William Maclure was an American geologist who lived from
> 1763 to 1840."
>

In case this little thread doesn't have everyone too far gone-- From
my days in Texas I remember getting quite a kick out of how the
cowboy hatted fellows I used to work with called the OO a "bodark".
Did you know that there is a Trivial Pursuit card with a question
about the tree known as the "beaudark" tree? Just how fractured can
your French get?
Jerry Broadus
P.O. Box 249
Puyallup, WA. 98371