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However, the growing of osage orange timber for posts is 

 on the increase. Systematically maintained, plantations 

 pay well. The wood is exceptionally durable in soil. 

 Good prices are paid for posts in local markets. Twenty- 

 five posts can be grown to the rod in rows of a plantation ; 

 they grow rapidly and send up new shoots from the roots. 



The brilliant, leathery leaves and conspicuous green 

 fruits make this native bow-wood a very striking lawn 

 tree. It holds its foliage well into the autumn and turns at 

 length into a mass of gold. It harbors few insects, lias 

 handsome bark, and is altogether a distinguished, foreign- 

 looking tree. 



Experiments of feeding osage orange leaves to silkworms 

 have been successfully made at different times, but no- 

 where in America has silk culture succeeded. Since the 

 white mulberry is hardy here and its foliage is the basis of 

 the silk-growing industry in the Old World, it is futile to 

 look lor substitutes in the osage orange or any other tree. 



