| 单词 | wild plum |
| 例句 | A wild plum tree yonder made a fine target. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At camp, women and girls made clothes, gathered food—wild plums, blackberries, grapes—and tended babies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As the seasons went by, we grudgingly began to share our knowledge, our weapons, our secret places that were thick with wild plums or turkeys. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We filled our lunch baskets with wild plums from a tree at the creek bank, then rejoined the others and visited some more. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I carried a basket filled with two Mason jars of Uncle Chester’s canned wild plums to share at the after-service dinner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Though these mountains were unfamiliar to him, the trees were the same as at home—maple, oak, and wild plum giving way gradually to pines as he climbed higher. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He reached down and picked up one of the wild plums he’d jarred from my basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On the side were steamed safou, sour wild plums that grow on hillsides. Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Fruit grows wild everywhere in Charleston: citrus, kumquats, berries, a variety of wild plums, and one of my seasonal favorites: the bull grape, aka muscadine or scuppernong. The Southern and Low Country pantry ingredients one cook can’t live without 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z There, wild plum trees abound, heavy with fruit, green, yellow and red. A Chef’s Childhood in Iran Shaped His Cooking in the Pandemic 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Braun said this affects the water runoff needed in the spring for farming and growing traditional plants such as wild plums and buffalo berries. Arrests and clashes cap week of D.C. protests by Indigenous youth and climate activists 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The researchers also found at least 57 different plant taxa in the dung deposit, from conifer cones and wild plum to ash and pokeweed. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberry, huckleberry, viburnum, dogwood, hayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying under the chemical barrage. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Wasil had brought only rudimentary provisions, and when he finished those he ate wild plums for four days. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Other pieces in the collection included samples from wild plums, chokecherries, hackberries, a primrose and one without flowers, leaves or seeds known to pioneers as scouring rush. Plant collection finds permanent home at Hastings 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z As the trees matured, he planted more trees, providing a canopy for other food-bearing plants like hazelnut shrubs, wild plum, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and currants. Farmer committed to restoring the land 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z In spite of the marked general tendency to avoid woody plants, some voles made their runways around the roots of blackberry bushes, sumac and wild plum trees. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z Now Wima came, put down a basket, and untied a white wristband which he wore, held his hand down, and wild plums dropped into the basket and filled it. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z The wild plum reaches its greatest perfection in the north, where the shrubs are found in extensive groves covering whole mountain slopes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z As we rested for a little while in some thick, wild plum bushes they came all about us. The Sa'-Zada Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:18.457Z In the Caucasus there are many edible fruits in the forests where the boars live: wild grapes, cones, apples, pears, blackberries, acorns, wild plums. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z This trap was under a wild plum tree. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z In the north-east are stretches of orchard-like country with wild plum, shea-butter and kola trees, baobabs, dwarf date and fan palms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z He's going to try and shake you out of that tree like a wild plum! Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z Indeed, the horticulturists consider this large juicy fine-flavored, black berry quite worthy of cultivation, as it grows in the wild to one inch in diameter—the average size of wild plums. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z THE common wild plum, or yellow plum, is a small tree which at a height usually of 3 to 6 feet divides into many spreading branches, often drooping at the ends. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Both plums and apricots may be worked upon the peach stock, and they will grow very vigorously, as they will upon the wild plum, but they soon over-grow, and are very apt to break off. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z It was fringed with forests, which were much thicker and richer than those farther to the North, and offered us splendid wild plums as refreshment when we rode through. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Later he cuts up "a fig of tobacco;" he says "we can yarn now;" he speaks of living on "wild plums and bandicoot;" and he makes mention of "a certain newchum." Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z There were bushy wild plums flanking the grove, and beyond them the ordinary scattered thorns. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z It is, or was, a small wild plum, of the damson kind. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z There were wild cherries and even wild plums, and when he wished he could pluck a handful of wild grapes 110 from a vine by the trail and munch them as he rode along. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z In spring and summer they visited the woods, where with their cubs they regaled upon wild plums, grapes, honey, and young game of all sorts, and at times played the deuce in my maize-field. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The Indians grew much corn, and gathered wild plums and “grapes, from which,” his thoughts turning to home, he says, “good wine could be made if they chose.” Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z There was plenty of wood for their fires, and there was an abundance of buffalo berries, wild plums, choke-cherries, June berries, wild grapes, wild raspberries and other fruit growing in the woods. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z Then, Medicine Man, despair settled in my heart; I shrivelled like the ungathered wild plum, I burned with a fierce, hot inward fire. The Fire Bird 2011-02-07T03:00:26.667Z There were wild currants, raspberries, gooseberries, service-berries, wild plums and grapes; and of most of these, one was sufficient to make a meal for both of the children. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z Wild plums grew in abundance along the river bank and were much larger and of finer quality than the wild plums of today. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Let us go forth and seek Woods where the wild plums redden and the beech Plumps its packed burs: and, swelling, just in reach. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems The hills the bushy wild plums show, And pear-trees grace the ground below. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches You will need the leaves of the wild cherry, or the wild plum. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins Overhead pear trees, pomegranates, and wild plums, figs, quinces, and bananas, were intermingled with the foliage of the cypress, the gum, the willow, and a hundred others. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa If she would not play or laugh with him, they could wander through the woods together, tasting the tang of the evergreen or watching the buds burst on the wild plum. The Shadow Little islands dotted the surface, covered with rushes and date palms, the wild plum, and the babul—all growing thickly together. Banked Fires The haw tree and wild plum put forth masses of small creamy-white flowers, the redbud tree blooms along the water-courses, the dogwood in the woods and the wild crab-apple upon the open hillside. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Hugh Glass was making his way, this August evening, amidst the tangle of wild plums, berry bushes, and willows along the bank of the Grand. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters But your sister may exercise her abilities on the pailfuls of strawberries, and raspberries, and sand cherries, and wild plums, that fill the woods in summer. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement The common wild plums make good stocks, if grafted at the ground. Soil Culture On the higher levels oak and pines are found among the other trees, and bracken grows around the wild plums on the more open slopes. Burma Peeps at Many Lands Sometimes his meal is made upon rabbits or grasshoppers, and I have seen him feeding upon wild plums. Wild Life on the Rockies Make jelly from wild grapes, wild plums, green grapes, green gooseberries or crab apples, using half the usual amount of sugar, especially for such meat. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South They had clams steamed with seaweed, and they had nuts and wild plums. The Cave Twins The contrast is between the wild plum and the cultivated plum. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning They use the stones of the wild plum, which they colour with fanciful devices, and toss them up in a wooden bowl. The Vanishing Race There was a little song of waters gurgling down the spillway that was once only a dry draw choked with wild plum bushes. Winning the Wilderness Amongst our fruit bearing trees we may enumerate the walnut, hickory or shag bark, persimmon, pecan, mulberry, crab apple, pawpaw, wild plum, and wild cherry. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Cocoanuts and bananas, oranges and wild plums, bread-fruit and Malay apples, came piled together in beautiful mingling. The Old Helmet, Volume II Basswood, crab apple, wild plum, black walnut, ash, hickory and hard maple generally indicate a fertile soil. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know The seeds of wild plums, colored black on one side and scraped white on the other, were shaken up in a box made of bark and thrown out upon a smooth spot on the ground. Far Past the Frontier The draw, once choked with wild plum bushes in the first days of the struggle in the wilderness, was the outlet now to the little lake that nestled in the heart of the Aydelot grove. Winning the Wilderness The wild plum is found in every part of the State; but in most instances the fruit is too sour for use, unless for preserves. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West "He would," said Henry, "and, being terribly hungry, he would then climb that wild plum tree there beyond the oaks." The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" In the furthest corner of the wild plum grove she laid it down, gently stroked its soft forehead, and smoothed the leaf-like ears. Indian Child Life The grape-vine tangled the near woods, the wild honeysuckle perfumed the air, and wild plums blossomed white in May and purpled with fruit in summer. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk A few stunted cottonwood trees followed its windings, and one little clump of wild plum bushes bristled in a draw leading down to the shallow place of the dry watercourse. Winning the Wilderness The house was shaded from above by a grove of ilexes and oaks; lower down were orchards of olives, wild plums, cornels, apples. Horace She picked a handful of wild plums from the thicket, but she wanted something more. The Tree-Dwellers The wild plum is so abundant and delicious as to suggest the most favorable adaptation to the other stone-fruits. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 As she went swiftly up the wild plum lane, some tears brimmed up in her eyes, but there was a smile on her lips and a song in her heart. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Jim Shirley had a supper of fried ham, stewed wild plums, baked sweet potatoes, and hot coffee, with canned peaches and some hard little cookies. Winning the Wilderness He also found some ripening wild plums and ate those, too. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The banks of rivers were shaded by thickets of laurel and by the sloe, the original form of the wild plum tree. The Tree-Dwellers Some of the stems of the kablioun, made of cherry tree, jasmine, wild plum, and ebony, are five feet in length, and are bored with a kind of gimlet. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce At the top of the lane a wild plum tree hung out its branches of feathery bloom against the crimson sky. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 The cottonwood trees and wild plum bushes belonged to a mid-winter landscape, and of the many young catalpa groves, only stubby sticks stood up, making a darker spot on the face of the bare plains. Winning the Wilderness The Indians led the Frenchmen into their wigwams and feasted them upon buffalo steaks, with bear's fat, and some very delicious wild plums. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago Outside the hut the prairie fowl were crowing and calling to one another in the tall trees, evidently attracted by the thick growth of choke-cherries and wild plums. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands I have found wild plums and cherries, and mulberries as long as my finger, and whortle-berries, too. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness It satisfied her artistic instinct and made her glad to be alive in the world where wild plums blossomed against springtime skies. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 “I found them in the draw where the wild plums grow,” Asher said. Winning the Wilderness Red-bud trees glowed everywhere, and wild plum and dogwood and white lilac were all in bridal array. Mary Ware's Promised Land Then, after a while, the buffalo berries and wild plums began to disappear from the bushes roundabout and appear on the table as jam. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Other boys played truant too, of course—and these went nutting or blackberrying or wild plum gathering, but Edmund never went on the side of the town where the green woods and hedges grew. The Book of Dragons The bark of both kinds of wild plum was formerly much used in medicine, and considered equal to the Peruvian bark in cases of intermittent fever. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 They began a search, and after a while they found wild plums, now ripe, which they ate freely. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War Romans found in Britain a scant supply of corn, grasses on which the cattle fed, wild plums, a few nuts and berries. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Everything there, the dwarf date palms, the scrubby wild plums and the stunted jambolans, was in keeping with the miniature mountain ranges, the little rivulet and the tiny fish I had discovered. My Reminiscences We were quartered at Schipka Keui, where we pitched our tents on the edge of a forest of wild plum trees, and spent our idle time as best we could, whilst we waited for developments. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile We had wild plums and little wild cherries with stems just like tame cherries, on our farm. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History The Bahna was exceedingly pleased at this and replied, ‘King of the forest, eater of wild plums, only the great can recognise the great.’ The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II But here in the meadow, you can see far off on the other side, and hear the cows ripping off the tender grass, and smell the perfume of wild plums. Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way In some sections wild plums are to be found; in others, abundance of cranberries grow most luxuriously. Three Boys in the Wild North Land They ate their lunch with a relish; Jeanne had found some berries and some ripe wild plums. A Little Girl in Old Detroit We had great quantities of wild plums on our own place. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History On arrival at the bride’s village the bridegroom touches the marriage-shed with the branch of a ber or wild plum tree. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Its natural food plant is probably the native wild plum, and the plum continues to be its favorite food, consequently this fruit suffers most from the attacks of the insect. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation O come with me to the dear little spot, And I'll show you the place I was born, In a little log hut by a clear running brook, Where blossom the wild plum and thorn. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer Let us get a pail and go after wild plums. A Little Girl in Old Detroit The wild plum found in the woods my father cultivated and they were as large as small eggs and looked like small peaches. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Into the joints everywhere they had thrust great feathery bushes of the wild plum, completely concealing every sign of themselves. Jack Haydon's Quest They found an hour or two later some nearly ripe wild plums, which they ate in small quantities, and, later on, ripe blackberries very juicy and sweet. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky In one of these was heaped a store of piñons, in the other a handful or two of wild plums. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Along the shores wild haws and wild plums still adhered to the bushes, and the stiff-branched persimmon-trees bore thousands of their tomato-like fruit. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times I remember a pear shaped wild plum which grew along the river bank. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History "There's something behind those bushes of wild plum," said Jim Dent. Jack Haydon's Quest They must obtain more solid food than wild plums and blackberries, if they would retain their strength, and both boys knew it. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky Ten to one there's a deer in that thicket of wild plum over there. The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain Telling the time by the sun, she dismounted at noon and in the shade of a wild plum thicket, ate her luncheon, while the mare cropped the sweet road-side grass. The Starbucks The only fruit we had for winter use was dried apples, wild plums, wild crab apples and cranberries. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History The lower slope of the ravine was covered with tall bushes of wild plum, and, as Jack ran through these, he lost sight, for a few moments, of the bridge and the busy dacoit. Jack Haydon's Quest The hearts of the boys sank and they thought again of wild plums and blackberries which were but a light diet. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky A liqueur tasting of carraway seeds is pleasant, but that made from the wild plum is not to be rashly ventured upon. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe As if that were not enough, in the very heart of this woody temple were two shaggy old crab-apple trees and one stray wild plum. Green Valley There is a wild plum that is found in our New England States and in Canada known as the Canada plum. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls The American wild plum crosses readily with almost any other plum and particularly well with the Japanese plum. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin I introduced years ago, if you remember, the Ocheeda plum, that come from seedlings that we found in the wild plum at Ocheeda Lake. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 I wish I knew where some wild plums grew. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The boys and girls gathered wild plums, and grapes, and corn, and brought in pumpkins from the gardens; and the women made pies, puddings, cakes, and bread, and baked the meat and corn. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History An' we had sweet potatoes, an' simlins, an' water-millions, an' berries, an' grapes, an' wild plums, an' wild hogs, an' fish. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 I have grafted scions of this apricot on both hybrid and wild plum stocks repeatedly and this apricot now exhibits a material gain in hardiness. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin The mother tree was raised from wild plum pits received from Manitoba a few years ago. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The wild plum shrubs by the fences were bronzed by September. What Necessity Knows No. They are fairer than the blossom of the wild plum, and their hair is like the silk of corn. The Grey Cloak She begins in the morning, when she wakes, by two little green wild plums pickled in vinegar and rolled in powdered sugar. Madame Chrysantheme Midway between Châtelherault and Poictiers is a sandy waste covered with scrub of juniper and wild plum, which contrives a living by some means between great bare rocks. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Another plum which I decided to place in propagation is a hybrid of the wild plum of Manitoba with the Japanese plum. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The origin of this was an incident that occurred in 1337, in the time of Edward III, when some Englishmen who were retreating stopped here to eat some wild plums. From John O'Groats to Land's End There were some pools of water standing in a coulee, at whose head grew a clump of wild plum trees and other straggly growth. The Way of a Man We had passed through a thicket of wild plum and crab-apple trees," says Mr. Speed, "and stopped to water our horses. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him I met him on the street early the next morning, and it wore the hue of a wild plum in its ripeness. Aftermath Even the wild plums were few, as the blossoms were hurt by frost. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The stock, some four feet long in the war-bows, is usually of wild plum wood, the string is of plaited hemp, and the trigger of bone. Across China on Foot But at last she caught a wisp of dry grass, a few dry stems--others, the bits of wild plum branches. The Covered Wagon Turning to the north, the bank of Eleanor was followed to the first camping-place, Plum Flat, an attractive clearing, where wild plums have been augmented by fruit and vegetables. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment On the last lease taken, and now inclosed in our pasture, there were a number of wild plum groves, covering thousands of acres, and the Indians wanted permission to gather the ripening fruit. Reed Anthony, Cowman They were seen to take shelter in a clump of wild plum brush, and the posse closed in on them. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories There was no sweet which Michel loved as he did this confection of wild plums and maple sugar boiled down and spread on sheets of birch bark. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World The wild plums is better'n any in Kentucky; and as for grapes, they're big as your thumb, and thousands, on the river. The Covered Wagon I spread my bundle of straw under the wild plum tree, and, covered by my ulster, tempted sleep. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II Ten days' permission was given to gather the wild plums, camps were allotted to the Indians, and when the fruit was all gathered, I barbecued five stray beeves in parting with my guests. Reed Anthony, Cowman Farther on they came to the cherry trees, where they obtained some of the fruit, and at the edge of the little forest were wild plums. The Scarecrow of Oz For treat they had wild plums and crab-apples and tiny wild strawberries. Main Street The white dogwood passed to make room for scattering thickets of wild plum. The Covered Wagon They chatter in swarms over the wild-cherry trees, and overload their crops with red haws, wild plums, papaws, blackberries and mandrake. The Song of the Cardinal Tender greens were showing along the river and in the fields, and the purple of red-bud mingled with the white of wild plum all along the Wabash. At the Foot of the Rainbow The child put out her hand and broke off a branch of wild plum that brushed against the side of the buggy. Anne of Green Gables She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees. Main Street In the furthest corner of the wild plum grove she laid it down, gently stroked its soft forehead, and smoothed the leaflike ears. Old Indian Days There I found plenty of hazel nuts, acorns and wild plums. Indian Boyhood The nut crop was also very heavy, and the wild plums were larger and sweeter than usual. Before Adam It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. Anne of Green Gables "Are you going to tell her in your next that R. B. Grosbeak is a bird, and that he probably will spend the winter in a wild plum thicket in Tennessee?" A Girl of the Limberlost They saw walnut, chestnut, and wild plum trees, and oaks festooned with grape-vines; herds of deer, and flocks of swans and wild turkeys. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 The great yellow cat came slipping out from the over-weighted thickets of wild plum, and settled herself on her boulder with a bound. The Trail Book This field we overlooked through a fence-row of persimmon and wild plum. The Cavalier The corners so clean where they were empty, so delightful where they were filled with alder, wild plum, hawthorn; attractive locations for the birds of the bushes that were field and orchard feeders. Michael O'Halloran Further seawards, or rather riverwards, at a place called "Sluis," they are fringed with wild rose and wild plum, and the ditches are deep in rushes, in willow herb, in purple nightshade, water-mint, and reeds. The Naturalist on the Thames We will begin with wild plums these we often preserve, and when the trees are planted in gardens, and taken care of, the fruit is very good to eat. In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada He would sing and nobody could understand him but Running Elk, who lay in the grass, and finally had courage to come into the camp in broad day, selling buffalo meat and wild plums. The Trail Book Large black sloes; a variety of the wild plum. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire My wild plum trees grow in the coarse earth, among excrementitious mould, a physical life which finally blossoms and exhales its perfect odour: which ultimately bears the seed of its immortality. Adventures in Contentment Catharine found great store of wild plums in a beautiful valley not far from the shanty; these she dried for the winter store, eating sparingly of them in their fresh state. Lost in the Backwoods We will begin with wild plums: these we often preserve; and when the trees are planted in gardens, and taken care of, the fruit is very good to eat. Lady Mary and her Nurse I think I shall help myself to some of that wild plum jam and biscuit, first It reminds me of old times. The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies Or, the Secret of the Lost Claim Sturdy groves of wild plum adorn the hillsides. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Baby's sleeping sound, And the wild plums grow in the jungle, only a penny a pound. Life's Handicap We passed through a thicket of wild plum and crab-apple trees, and stopped to water our horses. Friends and Helpers The shrubbery consists principally of the wild rose, hawthorn, and wild plum; and raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and cranberries are abundant. Minnesota and Dacotah The wild plums are very good, but to attain perfection, should be buried for some days previous to eating. Australian Search Party Then she stopped under a tall wild plum that was ghostly white and fair in its misty spring bloom and laughed. Rilla of Ingleside The fall of red haw, persimmon, and pawpaw, and the odorous wild plum in its valley thickets. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields At the side of the rectory, churchward, is a little grass lawn with low hedges and at the side of that two wild plum trees, that are practically always in white blossom. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town It began just before berry time, but continued its career of destruction long after the wild plums and even buffalo berries had ripened. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches "I can't live on wild plums!" retorted the weeping Bride; "nobody could; besides, they are only half ripe, and I can't reach them." The Junior Classics — Volume 1 All along the stream were tall oaks and spreading walnut trees, with here and there a grove of wild plums or a thicket of hazel bushes. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader Into this maze of rocks they threaded a tortuous way, climbing, descending, halting to gather wild plums and great lavender lilies, and going on at the will of fancy. Riders of the Purple Sage There grow the wild plums that are good for my people in summer and winter. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister Then they feast ravenously on huckleberries, blueberries, kinnikinnic berries, buffalo berries, wild plums, elderberries, and scores of other fruits. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches About twelve miles below my ranch there are some large river bottoms and creek bottoms covered with a matted mass of cottonwood, box-alders, bull-berry bushes, rosebushes, ash, wild plums, and other bushes. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches For a few jumps the race was close, then the horse drew away and the bear wheeled and went into a thicket of wild plums. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Then it began to move slowly towards a patch of ash and wild plums in the head of a coulie, some distance off. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches |
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