elder-tree

• “On my way to the house, however, I went up to my seat under the elder-tree, and looked up at”

  First Love

• “All of a sudden Pobyedimsky came into sight from behind an elder-tree at the turn of the avenue.”

  The Wife

• “Tom," said Maggie, as they sat on the boughs of the elder-tree, eating their jam-puffs, "shall you run away to-morrow?”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

• “The elder-tree is exactly like that of France, only that its leaf is a little more indented.”

  History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing

• “It is not permitted to "food-reformers" to make "wine," but those readers who are fortunate enough to possess an elder-tree might well preserve the juice of the berries against winter coughs and colds.”

  Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

• “The berries of the elder-tree are not palatable enough to be used as a common article of food, but in the days when nearly every garden boasted its elder-tree few housewives omitted to make elderberry wine in due season.”

  Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

• “German folk-lore, men should take off their hats in the presence of an elder-tree.”

  Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

• “The village-charmer was summoned; he first cut off a slip of elder-tree, and made a notch in it for every wart.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

• “German, of course, whereas Hulda was to present the elder-tree scene of _Käthchen von Heilbronn_, with Lieutenant Engelbrecht of the”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

• “Snow and frost held all the night through; _all that night the Dog (devourer) of the elder-tree howled with unwearying jaws and worried the earth with grim fangs of cold_.”

  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature

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