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 | hardwood
Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3583 iowa 
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2006-12-16 138064
I only have two living aunts left, one of them always was a bit on the wacko side, but at times she was right on with a few things. I visited her the other day and during our visit spiders in the basement came up. She acted like I was the dumbest man in town that I did'nt know about putting a hedge apple in the basement to keep the spiders away. As I said she sometimes is right about things. Anybody ever heard of this? Frank.
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 | ncrunch32
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 762 Kingston, NY 
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2006-12-16 138066
Only by googling after your post. Looks like there are some believers! Interesting . . . ....
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 | Peters
Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3034 Northern AL
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2006-12-16 138070
Friends in KY claimed such. As a transplanted northerner the variation in names has confused me. I have heard Osage Orange, Bois d'arc, Bodock Tree, Horse Apple, Hedge Apple and Road Apple. We attended a Bodock festival in Pontotoc MS this year and I had no idea what it was.
I have also heard they will keep the mice away. I don't think they are poisonous so I have no idea why they would. The horses seem to like them.
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Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3583 iowa
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2006-12-16 138076
Ncrunch; Sounds like Aunt Lilly was right again so maybe better pay more attentiom to her. Thanks for the Info. Frank. ....
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 | Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa
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2006-12-16 138089
my in-laws put them out in their home. Never understood why until last year when I heard about this. Just seemed odd to have this looking thing rotting on tin foil in several rooms. What did I know? ....
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