For here was the time of the hay gone past, and the harvest of small corn coming on, and the trout now rising at the yellow Sally, and the blackbirds eating our white-heart cherries (I was sure, though I could not see them), and who was to do any good for mother, or stop her from weeping continually? ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
One may easily, even a countryman, I take it, live to a great age and never have the chance of climbing into a white-heart cherry tree and eating one's fill. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
Then he led his party over the fence and along thick lines of currant bushes, creeping under their cover to where the beautiful white-heart cherries hung ripening in the sun. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)
* Carya tormentosa, Nutt. the white-heart hickory is one of the most common kinds and although it does not become as large a tree as the others, has wood of a superior quality, being very elastic and tough. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
The wood is considered scarcely inferior to that of the white-heart hickory and is put to the same uses. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
The other kinds are, however, largely used for these purposes when the white-heart cannot be obtained. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
Battling daily with trap and spade against the importunate excavator who uproots his crops, he is in a better position than any one to procure for me what I regard for the moment as more precious than his bunches of asparagus or his white-heart cabbages. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
-- Large white-heart cherries form a very delicate dish when stewed. ❋ A. G. Payne (1867)
Take three or four white-heart endives, throw them into boiling water slightly salted. ❋ A. G. Payne (1867)
And that was how it came about, that when the farmer's little daughter Daisy, with a face like the rosy side of a white-heart cherry set deep in a lilac print hood, came back from going with the dairy lass to fetch up the cows, she found Flaps snuffing at the back door, and she put her arms round his neck (they reached right round with a little squeezing) and said: ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)
The white-heart cabbage turned affably to the rising barrister, begged him to see her to her carriage, and gave him the ❋ Fanny Kemble (1851)
She certainly did look like a fresh white-heart cherry going to be bitten off the stem by that lipless mouth. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
It reaches its largest size, however, on the better class of loamy soils, often being 80 to 90 feet high and 2.5 to 3 feet in diameter, where it is associated with the white oak and various black oaks, the red and white-heart hickories and dogwood, but it is far more abundant on close or shallower soils growing with the post and black-jack oaks, which often form a lower story beneath the open upper story of pines. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
June) was a spreading tree of white-heart cherries in full bearing. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
