| 单词 | currant bush |
| 例句 | Charlie was a funny sight, hardly higher than a currant bush, but drawn up like a man in his worn boots and his father’s old woolen shirt with the sleeves rolled. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Put it this way: Would you prefer to see a banana plant grow before your very eyes, or watch a currant bush drop its leaves? The banana plant went gangbusters. Now what? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I’ve decided that the red currant bush has to go; the excavation may happen in the cooler months, but its fruiting days are over. Birds, chipmunks, snakes, insects: At some point, the gardener feels like an intruder 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z White-topped gorse and cherry-red currant bushes gave color to my panorama, the plaintive chorus of sea birds the only soundtrack. Footsteps : Following Dylan Thomas in Wales 2014-03-20T20:37:20Z “Everything will die,” said Tetyana, 64, as she walked through her fruit and vegetable garden, with young tomato plants on her left and red currant and black currant bushes on her right. ‘Everything Will Die’: A Dam Blast Imperils Ukraine’s Vital Lifeline 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z For many years, unless your garden had existing currant bushes, or your family sought out imported products, you might never have encountered them. Tart currants’ fanbase is growing along with their versatility and availability 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The currant bush needs a lot of compost but no sulfur. When to prune rhodies, how to move blueberries and more spring garden advice 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z We buried her among currant bushes, in the wind, in the sun. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z After the barren valleys which we had left, these appeared very fertile; rose and currant bushes surrounded every field, while the hillsides were covered with juniper and willows. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Net up, in dry weather, gooseberry and currant bushes, to preserve the fruit till late in the autumn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The trees on these banks are large, chiefly the two species of Beech before-mentioned, and Winter's-bark; there are besides many shrubs, and an impenetrable underwood of Arbutus, Berberis, and currant bushes. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Q: We need to move established blueberry bushes and an established red currant bush this month. When to prune rhodies, how to move blueberries and more spring garden advice 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z With almost sinister significance a sleek bronze grackle, plump and round, his eyes standing out with fatness, emerged leisurely from among the currant bushes and gobbled up a worm. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z It'll have a nice straight path down to the gate, currant bushes in neat rows along the sides, two big flowerin' shrubs, and little flower beds bordered with box. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z The bees have left the orchard and betaken themselves to the flower garden, but the birds are feasting royally in the gooseberry and currant bushes. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Around the sides of the garden, by the high fence, were currant bushes thick and plenty. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Occasionally gooseberry or currant bushes, or raspberry canes or strawberry plants, are set between the bush trees, and taken away directly they interfere with the growth of these. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z In following the line of the mole’s last tunnel he had worked his way under the picket fence and had torn up two currant bushes and done some damage in the strawberry patch. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The fence was painted a glittering white; there had been an attempt at grass; currant bushes in straight rows bordered the two sides. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z The gooseberry and currant bushes have opened their queer little flowers to the bees, and, low on the ground, the strawberry spreads its white petals, inviting them to its honey feast. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Don't you hear the bees, and can't you see that great speckled toad under the currant bushes, hopping about? Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z It is walled in by abrupt, rocky-faced mountains that rise many hundreds of feet from the water's edge, and on which a scanty growth of laurel, currant bushes, and moss furnish food for the goats. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z There he lies panting over by the currant bushes. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z But it was hardly mental after all; she saw the gate, she saw the straight path, she saw the currant bushes and the box-bordered flower beds as distinctly as though they had really been there. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z The sandy knoll around the little country parsonage upon which grew only a vine or two, a few cherry trees and some common currant bushes, served as a beginning in this gardening venture. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z There is also a red currant bush, out of which I shall make jelly. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Mirmex ran rapidly ahead over the bed of carrots, through the strawberry plants and under the gooseberry and currant bushes, where he stopped. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z As he did so his eye rested an instant on the stripped and broken branches of the currant bush. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z And over there—and there—along the sides, the fence will be just plain boards, notched at the top; the currant bushes will run along there. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z Golden Italian gourds pendent from the pergolas; standard currant bushes bordering a path and covered with red berries as late as September; dwarf fruit trees too, used decoratively, are among the happy points of interest. Beautiful Gardens in America 2011-01-11T03:00:36.140Z He lay down behind the wild currant bush and surveyed the landscape immediately in front of him. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Presently, however, her dress was caught by a currant bush, and the rustling sound caused the gentleman to turn, expecting to see cousin Sarah. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z In fact I'm not going away from these currant bushes till I have told you.' In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z Just see how pretty the flowers grow and the lovely currant bushes. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z I went out to find Mike, and learned that the small fruits had come–a hundred red raspberries, fifty blackcaps, twenty-five of the yellow variety, a hundred blackberries, not to mention currant bushes. The Idyl of Twin Fires I kind of wish you had seen me back there a-lying under my currant bush. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z It feeds in May on gooseberry and currant bushes, and changes to a chrysalis in a web between the leaves. Butterflies and Moths (British) She turned up her sleeves and plunged her arms into the currant bushes. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z Here the vines are trained on sticks or grow like currant bushes, and as in Germany, lose their beauty. Glories of Spain The garden was rank with unpruned gooseberry and currant bushes, untidy with scrambling gourds and grape vines. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Sheltering his long body behind bushes he dodged zigzaggingly across the top of the ridge to an advantageous position behind a wild currant bush growing beside a jagged boulder. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z From the end of June to August this moth may be seen in abundance in our gardens, wherever currant bushes exist, flying about both during the sunshine and at dusk, with rather a heavy movement. Butterflies and Moths (British) A wide-spreading old-fashioned garden, with rose bushes, and gooseberry bushes, currant bushes, sunflowers, and hollyhocks, and big gnarled old apple trees, mixed up in picturesque confusion. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir "Come and kiss me, and I'll give you the first cent I find on the currant bushes," said the old lady coaxingly. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck I have also a currant bush, and this shall remain. The New Gulliver and Other Stories He lay motionless behind the currant bush and watched Jack Murray's advance. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Amongst the vegetable productions of this spot, we noticed the perennial lupine, the narrow-leaved epilobium, and some currant bushes in full flower, and growing with great luxuriance. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Its plots contain a few hundreds of grape vines, which look like currant bushes. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Sure feet were needed among its vegetables, and its thickets of gooseberry and currant bushes, and its straying tangles of blackberry vines. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl At one end was a small currant bush and in the rest of the space Anna grew an annual crop of nasturtiums. My Lady of the Chimney Corner "Found one on a currant bush," chuckled Hank, and went on again. Bring Me His Ears A name grander and older than his, as the oak is older and grander than the currant bush. A Monk of Cruta The beams of the summer sun darted through rows of crimson currants, abounding on bushes by the fence, while a sulky black currant bush sat scowling in one corner, a sort of garden curiosity. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Others take short slips and thrust four or five of them together down into the soil as they do slips of currant bushes, thus making a hill of as many plants. Soil Culture The girls went to a currant bush and silently began to eat the cool, moist berries. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Throwing both arms up over his head, he turned a backward flip from the horse and sprawled inertly in a currant bush. Bring Me His Ears Still, he had not drowned them like unwanted kittens or burned them out like that nest of yellow jackets in the currant bush. The Land of Look Behind “When we passed it first I saw that the currant bushes were just loaded down, an’ a woman was out pickin’ them, though it’s ironin’ day. Anything Once He’s so still I’m afraid he’s out at the currant bushes again, and he’ll make himself sick. The Eye of Dread Knowing the haunts of hens, he went toward the currant bushes. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West All things considered, though, the strawberries were very good, the birds preferred the lower garden, where they could hop comfortably and securely under the gooseberry and currant bushes. What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps When gooseberry or currant bushes are attacked, a very simple expedient will suffice. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Then Sue ran to the garden and looked under the currant bushes, behind the asparagus bed and in the strawberry patch. Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm They passed through the house and down toward the spring house under the maple and basswood trees at the back, walking between rows of currant bushes where the fruit hung red. The Eye of Dread The garden took on fast its dressed and ordered look; the strawberries were uncovered; and the raspberries tied up, and the currant bushes trimmed; and pea-sticks and bean-poles bristled here and there promisingly. Nobody Each morning Rosa came up winsome and glad to be alive—fresh as the dew on the currant bushes and ravenous as a Mohammedan at the end of Ramadan. The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home Transplant all garden trees for flowering, prune currant bushes, and preserve the stones of the fruit for sowing.—November. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Mrs. Wilbur wrote on raising, transplanting, and caring for currant bushes. Paul and the Printing Press Archie was not behind the currant bushes, not even in the melon patch. Nine Little Goslings Red poppies found growing room between the currant bushes; here and there at a corner a dahlia got leave to stand and rear its stately head. Nobody Carry him away out to the foot of the garden, below the currant bushes. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine It was a young poet, a poet rhymeless and inarticulate, who huddled behind the shield of untrimmed currant bushes, and thought of the girl he would never see again. Free Air There were a few cabbages there, and rows of untended gooseberry and currant bushes, and down towards the orchard there was a patch of potatoes; but no one took pride now in the garden. The Vicar of Bullhampton When all was over they buried the dead chicken under a currant bush, covered the little grave with chickweed, and the bereaved parent wore a black string round her leg for a month. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag They grow as tall or a little taller than currant bushes. The Khaki Kook Book A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan The garden was bordered with hedges of currant bushes; and within them stood a regiment of bare bean-poles in line. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine While he tried to keep up his virtuous anger, he was steering into an abandoned farmyard, parking the car behind cottonwoods and neglected tall currant bushes which would conceal it from the road. Free Air The Indians had withdrawn behind the currant bushes, but Uncle Ike knew enough of Indian warfare to know that the silence was only temporary. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 We found potatoes in the gardens, some currant bushes, and a few hardy vegetables, stunted ash trees and some patches of barley. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland I was so shocked that I almost fell into a currant bush. Aunt Madge's Story Quick as a wink she slid over the fence into the Heath back-yard and crouched in her old place behind the currant bushes. Marcia Schuyler There was a path leading off between the raspberry and currant bushes, and slowly, but stubbornly, he limped along that path. Fair Harbor He came to the currant bush, and his wife jumped into it, crying out at the top her voice: “Don’t you come into the bush, you thief, or I’ll kill you!” Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore After the war the "Yanks" came by and took nearly all the stock that the servants hadn't hidden in the swamps and all the silver that "Ole Mistis" hadn't buried under the currant bushes. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Away bounded Buzzy, evidently enjoying the fun, and I after him, to find him at bay beneath a currant bush. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas As he walked he told her about Miranda waiting for him behind the currant bushes. Marcia Schuyler Also he could not imagine where the chuckler could be hiding, unless it was behind the rows of raspberry and currant bushes. Fair Harbor “And as if that proof were not enough, Courtenay, Dalton; when you fell and broke that currant bush—” “It was Phil who fell,” cried the boy with a vicious snarl. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden Don’t you lay much on those odds, my red currant bush. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) She scrambled down from the old cherry tree and ran across the yard to the row of currant bushes,p. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales Miranda’s honest face among the currant bushes when she had said, “You needn’t be afraid of me, I’ll keep still,” came to mind. Marcia Schuyler Neat plots of sprouting vegetables were bordered by currant bushes, and the whole was surrounded by a high brick wall, against which pear trees were trained in the English fashion. Just Patty Mister Rooster looked up and saw Mister Sparrow sitting in the English currant bush. Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin The banks were thick with currant bushes loaded with ripe fruit and we kept a supply of branches on the raft to pick off the currants as we went along. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 There were hollyhocks and currant bushes in her garden and Julian's children overran it. The Lovely Lady For such a boy to become a strong, vigorous man is just as impossible as it would be to make a mammoth tree out of a currant bush. Plain Facts for Old and Young They found the place where he had burst through the currant bushes after leaping from Paul's window, and there were his footprints in the soft earth; but that was all. Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island Surely enough, the ball had rolled under the edge of the currant bush, close to where a big hen was all cuddled up in a heap. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm He was a man who never stopped in the front yard to see how the clover was coming up, who never hoed around his currant bushes or ever found time to prune his fruit trees. Green Valley A row of currant bushes grew behind the barn. The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels Rice parted the double hedge of currant bushes which divided his father's garden from Saucier's, and followed Angélique upon her own gravel walk, holding her by his sauntering. Old Kaskaskia After a while I chanced to see Kid carrying a bundle done up in a gunny sack down to the acequia and hide it among the currant bushes. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories I wondered where she was hiding, but I never thought to look under the currant bush. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm Languidly the girl walked down the paved path between rank currant bushes, and entered the house. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Of course he didn't object to strolling up to a currant bush and taking a few currants for his own use, on the spot. The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels Then they ate figs and the fruit of the currant bushes. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross "Here he comes now—get him, Bunny!" cried Sue, as she went around one side of the currant bush, while Bunny came around the other side. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus The ball rolled under a currant bush, but when Sue ran to pick it up, the little girl suddenly stopped, and stood looking at the bush. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm Then he led his party over the fence and along thick lines of currant bushes, creeping under their cover to where the beautiful white-heart cherries hung ripening in the sun. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy There are very few trees, and those small narrow-leafed cottonwood: the principal growth being the narrow-leafed willow, and currant bushes, among which were some bunches of privy near the river. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. It produced a few trees and shrubs; such as pines, alders, birch, and willows; rose and currant bushes; and a little grass; but they saw not a single plant in flower. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Wild white currant bushes were growing inside of the fortress, breathing delicious fragrance. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan But when Bunny crept under the currant bush, and reached for his ball, the hen made a funny clucking noise, ruffled up her feathers and looked so angry, that Bunny was afraid. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm The female lays her eggs on a variety of shrubby plants; gooseberry and currant bushes are often chosen. The Life-Story of Insects The common currant bushes, blackberry bushes, and rose bushes which we see in gardens, are shrubs. New National Fourth Reader He landed upon an island, which lies between this branch and the eastern one; and upon it saw some currant bushes, with the fruit already set; and some other fruit-trees and bushes, unknown to him. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 In front of the cottage was a small garden ablaze with old-fashioned flowers; and in a large garden at one side were apple-trees, raspberry and currant bushes, and six thatched beehives on a bench. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages She was flying about a little bushy fir tree not bigger than a currant bush. The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends Surrounded by the savages on every side, they erected a fort, the traces of which, it is said, can still be seen, and now overgrown with roses, currant bushes, and other shrubbery. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 At every step, too, progress was barred by currant bushes, showing limpid bunches of fruit, rubies in one and all of which there sparkled liquid sunlight. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Dropsy.—Take the leaves of a currant bush and make into tea, drink it. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 But it is not for people to thrust themselves in when they see the house inhabited, entering even the bed-rooms, and stripping the currant bushes without once saying, "With your leave." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 My costume was a cross between a shooting outfit and the everyday dress of a stevedore, while my hair appeared as if recently dressed with a currant bush. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Even a Tetrazzini would cease to be able to produce her best trills if every time she opened her mouth, a tiger padded in her direction down a path of currant bushes. The Pleasures of Ignorance The caterpillars feed in the stalks of corn, tomatoes, potatoes, dahlias, asters, and also in young currant bushes, besides feeding on many species of weeds. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Free Passage Of Urine.—The leaves of the currant bush made into a tea, and taken as a common drink. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 See how tightly the Bindweed stems are twisted round the boughs of this currant bush. Wildflowers of the Farm The villagers complained that the birds sat under their black currant bushes, and devoured the currants as fast as they ripened! Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Before his very eyes she grew again to be the girl among the currant bushes, and with the same amazed intonation of incredulous joy she cried his name aloud. Hillsboro People Behind the house were apple-trees, and more currant bushes, as well as gooseberries and raspberries. The Purple Heights At the very end a few currant bushes partially hid the front of the shed and glass-house. True Tilda The plain was thinly scattered with sage brush, and up near the base of the mountain some greasewood grew in little bunches like currant bushes. Death Valley in '49 The currant bushes are pruned, and the long rose branches are trimmed, and present a blooming appearance. The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor "There's the child among the currant bushes; and I am rid of her mother: for good, I suppose." The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage The currant bushes are pruned, and the long rose brandies are trimmed, and present a blooming appearance. The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People My dressing-room window and my dining-room door look across a field of currant bushes to her house. A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 Somewhere among the currant bushes was a sound of eery laughter. Good Indian Almost every season a solitary quail visits us, and, unseen among the currant bushes, alls Bob White, Bob White, as if he were playing at hide-and-seek with that imaginary being. My Garden Acquaintance Charlotta, crouched among the currant bushes, Watched the moon slowly dip from twig to twig. Men, Women and Ghosts Fifty yards beyond the currant bushes he heard a sound and looked back; and there was Jean, riding out from her hiding-place, and coming after him almost at a run. Jean of the Lazy A It's TWENTY-NINE minutes past four, aunt Jane, and Alice Robinson has been sitting under the currant bushes for a long time waiting for me. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm I was close before I saw him, for he was sitting down and the currant bushes were between. Good Indian Down the middle of the garden was a row of gooseberry and currant bushes. O Pioneers! I was looking at the currant bushes, when, thinks I to myself, 'There's something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag?' and there, behold you! Sons and Lovers In setting out currant bushes care should be exercised not to place any buds under ground, or they will push out as so many suckers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 At last you come upon her suddenly some day, seated under the currant bushes. Remarks I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character. Our Hundred Days in Europe Dandelions are just past the height of their bloom, currant bushes just blooming, peas are up ten inches and weeds have a good start. My Boyhood She had wandered to the side garden, where she was walking up and down the path beside the currant bushes under the long wall. Sons and Lovers But Aronsen had a garden, with a fence all round, and currant bushes and asters and rowans and planted trees—ay, a real garden. Growth of the Soil After that he found soap berries growing on bushes that looked very much like currant bushes. The Grizzly King He slid along the ash branch and clambered up into the barberry bush, but he was no sooner there than he discovered a currant bush, on which still hung long red clusters. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils There, lullaby, and I will sing to you A little song about a yellow bird That made a nest upon a currant bush, And sung the sweetest that you ever heard, Lullaby, lullaby! The Lullaby, with Original Engravings But there was a swirl of smoke adrift in the windless air and the topmost branch of a wild currant bush thirty feet distant had been that instant cut in two. The Heart of the Range The blue muslin vanished between the rows of currant bushes. Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. Cartoner sat at one of the outside tables, where the hydrangeas, as large as a black currant bush, are ranged in square green boxes against the city wall. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories The rye blade, the barley, the wild strawberry, the blueberry bush, the pea stalk, the currant bush had come along as far as this. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils What is a garden without its currant bushes and fruit trees? Memories of Hawthorne It may have been that he remembered the object lesson of the severed branch of the wild currant bush. The Heart of the Range So she sat down on the lawn behind the thick currant bushes, where she could not be seen from the house. Cornelli It feeds upon the leaves, devouring all but the petiole, and often entirely defoliating both gooseberry and currant bushes. Success with Small Fruits Then, dropping to the ground, the boy slipped along the garden fence under the currant bushes to a small opening in the hedge that separated the two places. Their Yesterdays The little scrap of garden ground was a tangle of gooseberry and currant bushes among which potatoes flourished at their own sweet will. Station Amusements in New Zealand A forlorn cat came out timidly from the currant bushes. Friends and Helpers She was lying on the lawn behind the currant bushes. Cornelli Nothing is easier than success in raising young currant bushes, except failure. Success with Small Fruits There was not much to see: beds of vegetables,—a few currant bushes,—that was all. What Katy Did at School His game was a big fat spruce hen standing under a thicket of black currant bushes. Baree, Son of Kazan It was the tearing down of currant bushes twenty or thirty yards higher up the coulee. Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars Tiers of vines on the hillsides were mostly cut and trimmed like currant bushes, and disappointed Arthur, who had expected festoons on trellises. A Modern Telemachus I will guarantee that there are successful farmers who no more think of manuring a currant bush than of feeding crows. Success with Small Fruits Doc turned into Mr. Hyde on his way down and landed in a currant bush, spitting and swearing. Rilla of Ingleside Thomas Jefferson was prospecting under the currant bushes. Rebecca Mary Enoch threw down the lantern, and ran off and pushed his head into a currant bush; Fancy scudded up the path; and Mr. Shiner floundered away helter-skelter among the cabbages. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school He kept in the shadow of the cabin walls, then the line of orchard trees, then a row of currant bushes. To the Last Man Instead, therefore, of weed- choked, sprawling, unsightly objects, currant bushes can be made things of beauty, as well as of sterling worth. Success with Small Fruits Some rags were drying on a miserable currant bush that stood at the entrance of the square. The Country Doctor "Ah, yes, we aim at the moon and—hit the currant bush." Paul Kelver, a Novel Now what sort of person can that be," I asked myself, shaking my head, as I contemplated the changes before me, "who could put a rockery among vegetables and currant bushes? Elizabeth and Her German Garden Joe obeyed, casting longing eyes at a bit of blue gingham that was fluttering among the currant bushes in the garden. Lavender and Old Lace In most instances, I imagine, our best gardeners rarely trim two bushes exactly alike, but deal with each according to its vigor and natural tendencies; for a currant bush has not a little individuality. Success with Small Fruits In the plains near the river are the choke-cherry, yellow and red currant bushes, as well as the wild rose and prickly pear, both of which are now in bloom. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 |
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