Defn: The Oregon grape, a species ofbarberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.
Defn: A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower.
To make this necklace, string first a piece of the plantain-stalk, pushing the needle through lengthwise, then string a barberry and again a piece of the green stalk; after that a barberry.
Plantain-Stalk and Barberry Earrings How to make the earrings to complete this set of jewelry is shown in Fig.
The night-dew was dripping among the barberry bushes.
Sometimes they rise like simulacrums of ancient forest trees out of grassy spots that by day were cosey with sunshine and enclosed by barberry bushes hung with coral fruit and prim cedars, spots where no tree has stood these hundred years.
The green-yellow of barberry blooms is not more fervent than the yellow-green of the tender foliage, and the two colors blend into one burning bush of cool flame.
I prefer to think of them thus, as furry bogles that bob up out of fairy tales and bob back again to the making of a mythology that sniffs of sweet fern and bayberry and has the flavor of barberry sauce.
I do not wonder the summer yellow-bird loves to build his nest in the barberry bush.
They are veritable spirit voices, these, and fill the spaces among the red cedars and barberry bushes, the forests of sweet fern and the fox paths that wind among the berry bushes, with invisible fays and sprites.
What hours upon hours we spent in the broiling sun, picking into some half-pint vessel, and emptying that into a larger receptacle, safely stowed away under some cedar-tree orbarberry bush.
Not many rods from the vireos' cedar-tree was a brown thrasher's nest in a barberry bush.
All the seedlings from a variety of the Barberry (B.
The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them.
He had no one who could take care of little Christine, and therefore the child was almost always with him in his boat, or in the forest among the heath plants and barberry bushes.
Gaunt ice-covered rocks and dark clouds hung over a valley, where dwarf willows and barberry bushes stood clothed in green.
Peach leaves, or bark scraped from the barberry bush, color a common bright yellow.
Fustic boiled in soft water makes the strongest and brightest yellow dye; but saffron, barberry bush, peach leaves, or onion skins, will answer pretty well.
A Barberry Branch "In Arching Bowers" Barberry Blossoms, Showing Sepals and Petals Open.
Barberry Blossoms, Showing the Approach of the Bee.
Barberry Manners One who is unfamiliar with the remarkable doings of blossoms in association with their insect honey-sippers might consider it somewhat surprising to attribute "manners" to a flower.
For Hosea Biglow, nor his literary parent, James Russell Lowell, never dreamed of the significance of this strange spectacle in the shrinkin' hearts of the barberry bloom when surprised with the point of a pin.
There is an endless variety in these various welcomes among the flowers, and our barberry has one of the queerest of them all.
He has known this singular trick in the barberryfor ages, and kept the secret all to himself.
I have shown a plan of the barberry blossom seen from below, its yellow sepals and petals open, and opposite each of the inner set, and pressed against it, a stamen.
They belong in fields and pastures, in roadside thickets, or by fence-rows and old stone-walls bordered with barberry bushes and alders.
For the truth of Paul Vespan was what Madge Barberry had divined, though Mrs. Xerxes also had right on her side.
That awful cry, going up hourly from the heart of the Great City, had never come home to Madge Barberry before.
He had begged her to say to Miss Barberry that he hoped he had not frightened her, and to thank her for her kindness.
In this sanctuary of hushed repose, Madge Barberry lingered late and last of all the worshippers.
The berries of Berberis are edible; those of the native barberry are sometimes made into preserves.
The sun was behind the cedar and barberry and catbrier banks.
There was privet budding and hawthorn fading, and barberry and catbrier and wild grape, in fresh June coloring.
The wound was mortal, but the wounded man lived long enough to utter his curse--that "Herendeen and his posterity might be marked with split chins and haunted with barberry bushes" forever.
The malediction, legend says, was fulfilled, and the descendants of the murderer were still distinguished in the last century by a furrowed chin, and fired up with indignation at the mention of a barberry bush.
A near ally to the preceding is the Narrow-leaved Barberry (page 7).
A British shrub, the Common Barberry (page 8) usually inhabits dry stony soils, and forms a tall shrub about 10 feet high.
The Holly-leaved Barberry or Mahonia (frontispiece), a North American shrub, is commonly met with either planted as an undergrowth to deciduous trees or as a covert plant in woodlands.
When they reached the beach the wagon track led through a hedge of barberry bushes to a shed covered with pine boughs at the back of the fisherman's house.
First I hunted in all the bushes, and the Catbirds scolded me and the Brown Thrasher in the barberry bush was very mad and a Robin in the low crotch of the bell-pear tree nearly tipped his nest over, he flew away in such a hurry.
They are early people at Barberry Beach,--not Sybarites in anything, so far as I can judge.
All around thebarberry bush So early in the morning.
The fruit of the barberry and may-apple are edible, but the root of the latter is poisonous.
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