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• The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
• Water less-thirsty trees (Arbutus ‘Marina’, carob, Chinese pistache) about once a month or so.
• Deval's studio, a large, light room at the center of the house, looked out onto a walled garden, overhung with climbing roses and arbutus trees.
• A lone arbutus tree perches atop hill on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.
• Watkins also loved trees, making stark portraits of the redwood, Arbutus, buckeye, sugar pine, cactus, Yucca, Douglas fir and giant mariposa, which he declared "A Perfect Tree. His Best Shot
• * References: Massif des Maures = local mountain range; "La Voisine" means "neighbor" -- meet mine via her knitting blog; une ruelle (f) = narrow street; une arbouse (f) = arbutus-berry [from the wild strawberry tree] Escapade
• The lowest elevations are distinguished by a predominance of sclerophyllous evergreen and semi-deciduous oak forests (Quercus coccifera, Q. infectoria), "maquis" of strawberry tree (Arbutus andrachne), and juniper and cypress woodlands (Cupressus sempervirens, Juniperus phoenicea). Cyprus Mediterranean forests
• Stream, and yew and arbutus, as well as tropical cryptogamia and Alpine plants, overgrow every available spot along the sides of the rough defile. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
• Cistus, myrtle and cactus; cytisus, lentisk, arbutus; daphne, heath, broom, juniper and ilex -- these few I recognised, but there was no end to their varieties and none to their tangle of colours. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
• _Arbutus Unedo_, &c. The change is associated with petalody of the stamens and pistils. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants