Like stands of wild blueberry bushes and sandy beach-plum covered dunes, the location of a good watercress patch is a highly guarded secret. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1983)
There was good butter, fat doughnuts, and beach-plum preserve. ❋ James A. Cooper (N/A)
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. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1934)
Prudence had made a "two-egg cake" and opened a jar of beach-plum preserves to follow the creamed fish and biscuits. ❋ James A. Cooper (1917)
The appearance of the beach-plum pie, warm from the oven, turned the captain's thoughts to more pleasant subjects. ❋ Alice Turner Curtis (1912)
Behind it and beyond it were rolling hills, brown and bare, except for the scattered clumps of beach-plum and bayberry bushes. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
The other figure had seemed familiar, too, but it disappeared behind a clump of beach-plum bushes and did not come out again during the time that Galusha remained in sight. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
"I don't see how you make sech beach-plum preserves, Miss Davis," exclaimed the lady from Nantucket. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Also, there were boiled striped bass, which is good enough for anybody, hot biscuits, pumpkin pie, and beach-plum preserves. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
But Sarah-Mary, the eldest girl, had brought a basket containing a cranberry pie, a half-peck, more or less, of molasses cookies, and two tumblers of beach-plum jelly, and ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
She brought out doughnuts and beach-plum jelly and insisted on my sampling both, the doughnuts because they were just made and she "mistrusted" there was too much flour in them, and the jelly because it was some she had left over and she wanted to see if I thought it was "keepin '" all right. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Beside the path, on the landward side, the bayberry and beach-plum bushes were in bud, the green of the new grass was showing above the dead brown of the old, a bluebird was swaying on the stump of a wild cherry tree, and the pines and scrub oaks of the grove by the Shore Lane were bright, vivid splashes of color against the blue of the sky. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
He went out hurriedly, and, though I shouted after him, he only waved and ducked behind a beach-plum bush. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
[58] But by means of crossing with other species and especially with the Japanese plums, the hardy qualities of the beach-plum have been united with the size, flavor and other valuable qualities of the fruit, and a group of new plums have been produced with bright colors, ovoid and globular forms which are never flattened and have no suture. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
MacFarlane has studied the beach-plum or _Prunus maritima_, which is abundant along the coast regions of the Eastern States from Virginia to ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
In the case of the beach-plum it is the hardiness and the great abundance of fruits of the wild species which might profitably be combined with the recognized qualities of the ordinary plums. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
"Woah, look at [the beach] [plum] on that guy"
"Yeah, real [Ricardo milos]" ❋ Delphian44 (2021)
