sarvis

Beginning with the tan fluff of the beeches, the red flowering of maples, the feathery white blooms of the "sarvis," on through the redbud's gaiety and the white dogwood's stark purity, all is loveliness.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

It is a mountain fable that snow must always fall on the "sarvis" bloom, and it is blooming now.

unknown title 2009

It is a mountain fable that snow must always fall on the "sarvis" bloom, and it is blooming now.

unknown title 2009

That moment I turned my eyes to the south, and on a ridge not more than three hundred yards from camp, I saw three bears eating sarvis berries.

Chief of Scouts Drannan, William F 1910

I mounted my horse and started with a platoon of soldiers and a sergeant, and when we had advanced about twelve miles I was riding about two hundred yards in advance I saw something dodge into a bunch of sarvis brush.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

Large quantities of sarvis berries (_Amelanchier alnifolia_) were gathered whenever there was a crop (which occurs every other year), dried, and stored for future use.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

So he went out, and cut some sarvis berry shoots, and brought them in, and peeled the bark off them.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

Then he carried Mik-a'pi to a place where were many sarvis berries, and broke off great branches of the fruit, and gave them to him, saying, "Eat, my brother, eat!" and he broke off more branches, full of large ripe berries, for him; but already Mik-a'pi was satisfied and could eat no more.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

Me wid three years 'sarvis an' sorra intry in my shate at all, only two, wan time I was dthronk wid a cowld in me nose, sorr.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

Sometimes a few are pounded up with sarvis berries, and dried.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893