Fisher Family Genealogy
FISHER, Orville Benjamin
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Tree mystery - solved 1937
Another curious story. Orville "strange sort of tree in his yard" that produces "broad, clumsy, leathery, dark-brown seed-pods about four inches long. Inside the pods were seeds bigger than lima beans. Geo. Herzog got one of the pods and sent it to the University at Champaign to have the mystery settled, and the University folks promptly replied and said the tree is a Kentucky Coffee-tree, otherwise known as Gymnocladus dioica, and that it is a member of the locust family. They didn't seem to get a bit excited about it. We looked up the Kentucky Coffeetree, and the books say it is common in rich woods throughout this country. If it is, though, it is news to the men who have spent their lives in the woods around here."
Owner of original | Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 7 |
Date | 14 Oct 1937 |
File name | Mystery tree - solved 1937.jpg |
File Size | 959.85k |
Dimensions | 681 x 2788 |
Linked to | News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL; FISHER Orville Benjamin |
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