Dogwood Tree

Nautauquas had seated himself in the crotch of a dogwood-tree and looked with interest at his sister below him. ❋ Virginia Watson (1904)

On a southern hillside he found a dogwood-tree with its blossomed firmament of white stars. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

Flower and leaf resemble those of the dogwood-tree, to which family the bunchberry belongs. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)

Fox crope up de leanin 'dogwood-tree twel he come nigh de grapes, en den he sorter ballunce hisse'f on a lim' en gun um a swipe wid his big bushy tail, fer ter bresh off de bugs. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

On you goes down de hill twel you come ter 'n'er branch, en on dat branch dars a dogwood-tree leanin' 'way over, en nigh dat dogwood dars a vine, en in dat vine, dar you'll fine yo' grapes. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

My eyes being attracted by a little commotion on a dogwood-tree, I saw a saucy tufted titmouse chasing with cries one of the wrens who had food in its beak. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)

I sat down upon a log -- that same log of the liriodendron -- and under the shade of a spreading dogwood-tree. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)