beach-plum

Like stands of wild blueberry bushes and sandy beach-plum covered dunes, the location of a good watercress patch is a highly guarded secret.

One For The Table: Stalking Wild Watercress 2010

Much that is called “woods” was about half as high as this, — only patches of shrub-oak, bayberry, beach-plum, and wild roses, overrun with woodbine.

Postcard : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Much that is called “woods” was about half as high as this, — only patches of shrub-oak, bayberry, beach-plum, and wild roses, overrun with woodbine.

2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007

Croaker woke her when they were east of Amaganssett, passing through the gorgeous desolation of sand, beach-plum, stunted black pine and the occasional wild rose bush that was Napeague.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

There was good butter, fat doughnuts, and beach-plum preserve.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

We have two species of wild plum in North America -- the beach-plum, a low shrub found in New England, the fruit of which is dark blue and about the size of damsons; while the other is quite a large tree, and very showy when covered with its scarlet fruit.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

There, where the wind moaned in the beach-plum thickets and the white gulls wheeled and screamed, they dug a long grave and laid the dead to rest, pirates and honest men together under the wintry sky.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

Prudence had made a "two-egg cake" and opened a jar of beach-plum preserves to follow the creamed fish and biscuits.

Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

The appearance of the beach-plum pie, warm from the oven, turned the captain's thoughts to more pleasant subjects.

A Little Maid of Province Town Alice Turner Curtis 1912

"I don't see how you make sech beach-plum preserves, Miss Davis," exclaimed the lady from Nantucket.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907