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Many good berry-bearing trees in these woods were cleaned out in a matter of hours.
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The conspicuous berry-bearing bushes and trees along the shore were the red osier, with its whitish fruit, hobble-bush, mountain-ash, tree-cranberry, choke-cherry, now ripe, alternate cornel, and naked viburnum.
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An allied species, _Rhamnus Frangula_, is also common in England, and is known as berry-bearing or black alder.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The country looked pleasant, with many berry-bearing plants and bushes.
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Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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The upper parts of the mountains are covered partly with moss, and partly with low brush-wood, birch, and alder, and many berry-bearing shrubs and plants, but no high trees.
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No fruit-bearing trees were there to invite the birds in summer; nor, so far as I could see, any berry-bearing shrubs such as birds enjoy, nor any weed patches to attract the flocks of Whitethroats and Juncos that come drifting southward with the falling leaves of autumn.
The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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The vallies here are overgrown with verdure, and the hills pretty well clothed with moss, and berry-bearing plants; but we could not continue our walk, on account of the musquitoes, which persecuted us unmercifully, and drove us back to our tents.
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Here was a strange underground garden that might have been the courtyard to an oriental monarch's palace, a region of spraying fountains, of heavily scented flowers, of berry-bearing shrubs, of birds of brilliant plumage.
Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Jackson Gregory 1912
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Eustasio said that in the season, when certain berry-bearing trees are in full fruit, the latter may be seen by hundreds.
In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895
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