Quote:
Originally Posted by Wade Hampton
We had a line of hedge-apple trees (as we called them) in our backyard in the Kansas City suburbs when I was growing up. As kids we had epic hedge-apple fights with the softball-sized green fruit they produce:
The wood also makes magnificent firewood, though now that I know how good it sounds when used for making guitars I regret how much of it we burned in our fireplace. But we reveled in it, frankly, because it's so dense and resinous that one or two good-sized logs can last and burn brightly for an evening.
whm |
Was referred to as " green coal " in the midwest because of how hard it is and how long/well it burnt .