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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>My sister’s property in Texas has it all, Honey Locust, Osage orange, some sort of briar that jumps out and grabs you, and if the plants don’t get you then there are the chiggers and copperhead snakes. Her Locust have the nice 4” thorns that keep the tire shop in business and her John Deere on flats.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Aaron Dickinson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mason, Michigan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:metz-h.b@comcast.net">HERBERT METZ</a> <br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, November 17, 2019 9:24 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [AT] Knowing when to call it a day</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>According to Wikipedia the honey locust is native to central north America and the thorns are 1 1/4" to 4" long. We had couple hundred trees in our four acre yard consisting of trees, buildings and grass. I readily remember where that one thorny honey locust tree grew. Herb(GA) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On November 17, 2019 at 8:02 PM Mike M <meulenms@gmx.com> wrote: <br><br>We moved into a property that is littered with Honey Locust, I am in the process of eliminating them one by one. They are nasty trees and loaded with 1-1/2 to 2" thorns. Aaron we can't be too far apart, I live in rural Howell. <br><br>Mike M <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/17/2019 7:37 PM, Aaron Dickinson wrote: <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=ox-0291cecc08-ox-29561e0454-msonormal>My parents chose to plant 5 hawthorns as part of there landscaping in 1972, not bad when they were new, inside a long flowerbed. Over the years the trees grew and the flowerbed shrank. They didn’t last long once the flowerbed was returned to lawn and me, mower, and limbs came to a meeting. My dad also planted a thornapple in the yard causing my great uncle to ask my grandfather how they managed to allow someone into the family that would intentional plant thorny apple brush in their yard. My great uncle always fought thornapples in the fencerows on his farm, he did later comment at what a pretty tree it has grown into with proper pruning.</p><p class=ox-0291cecc08-ox-29561e0454-msonormal> Aaron Dickinson</p><p class=ox-0291cecc08-ox-29561e0454-msonormal>Mason, Michigan</p></div></blockquote></blockquote><p class=ox-0291cecc08-ox-29561e0454-msonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>