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My good friends, Karin and Robert MacDowell of ^Waterford, have several Osage ^Orange trees on property they >~3lkave developed into a splendid ""wildlife sanctuary. One very ~i&tge specimen of this unique ‘ tree is in view when we sit on ••^their porch, among buzzing and belligerent hummingbirds that visit Karin’s many colorflowering plants, along •'"ffith the feeders she keeps J^gBing for the tiny birds. *»•**«'I also watch the parade of £3i*rds that flies in and out of UL& Osage Orange. Its twisted SSCInches and fearsome thorns JjMyuld be an effective refuge predators. ■Sml^The Osage Orange is a tree, but was originally "Strand growing naturally only »wwng river bottoms in northeastern Texas, southern n Arkansas and southern , ,,Qklahoma. Before the Invention of barbed wire in 1874, the tree was planted n all over the East and Midwest as a natural * ' ftijce. Its contorted,
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