Small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge.
His favourite bowwood is osage orange, a tree brought to New Zealand by Amercian gold prospectors.
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They had abundance of ash and yew and these remained the good bowwood of all the time of archery.
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There were fig-trees, persimmons, mockorange, and shrubs ablaze with blossoms.
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This is true of grapes, quince, hybrid perpetual roses, shrubby hibiscus, crape myrtle, mockorange, hydrangea (paniculata), and others.
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The sweet smell of mallow and mockorange flowers wafted through the byways, perfuming the cobblestone lanes sweeter than a baby's breath.
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In the foyer and dining room and kitchen, the air swims with the scent of phantom flowers, shimmering with sweet, heavy mockorange.
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The sense of peace the poet feels in her garden with its mockorange and sky-blue delphiniums is warming, but her fire has gone.
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Other fairly hardy and drought-resistant trees are osageorange and Russian mulberry.
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It also occasionally attacks black walnut, butternut, mulberry and osageorange.
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Can the Navel orange be grafted on the osageorange?
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The osageorange is not an orange at all.
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We had to pass through an osageorange hedge that was worse than the enemy's fire.
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His favourite bow wood is osageorange, a tree brought to New Zealand by Amercian gold prospectors.
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The leaves are, very broad, and the fruit looks something like an ovoid osageorange as large as one's head.
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I'd like to have a wide strip across the back of the whole place, right in front of the osageorange hedge.
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This oasis was enclosed by a high fence on the inside of which ran a hedge of lilacs, privet, and osageorange.
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The farmers took time then to plant fine cottonwood groves on their places, and to set osageorange hedges along the borders of their fields.
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Grandpappy is grubbing and piling deadened thorn trees, piling brush, logs and dead limbs, spading-up locust, thorn, elm, osageorange and wild crabapple sprouts .
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The milky juice of the Osageorange is used as a wart-cure.
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The deciduous plants tried were the buckthorn, Osageorange, honey-locust, privet and barberry.
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For low breaks of this character the Russian mulberry and Osageorange are excellent.
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No hedge is more commonly mismanaged than the Osageorange.
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The care in planting and rearing is similar to that required by the Osageorange.