Re: Trees/ Honey locust
At 08:40 AM 08/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>That something is the seedpods. I'm not claiming a quality citation here,
>but I seem to remember that either the seeds or the pods themselves are
>very sweet. Supposedly they were harvested by rural folk and used as a
>sugar substitute during colonial times.
>
>I believe this comes from one of Eric Sloane's books on early americana -
>old enough info that it is safely lodged in my long term memory:-) I'll dig
>a book out of the box in the attic, if I rememeber.
>
>Russ
We used to have two honey locust trees, and they drip a sweet sap, I think
from the leaves. A wonderful yellow warbler used to visit the trees as the
trees were leafing out, tiny bird, very large voice. With vocal cords like
that, Pavarotti could rattle the Coliseum. Our trees didn't set seed pods,
nor did they have thorns. We had one taken out so we could add onto our
house, the other was unfortunately situated over the septic tank. My Dad
always thought these were perfect trees because you couldn't rake the
leaves, so they didn't need to be raked. But when they're situated quite
near the house and you have pet dogs, they bring the leaf stalks inside all
year long. Not a great tree in that location if you have dogs. Margaret L
