silver tree

“How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells-some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim-when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had?”

A Spell For Chameleon

“English miles, (Bell’s Travels, vol.ii. p. 67.)] 32 Rubruquis found at Caracorum his countryman Guillaume Boucher, orfevre de Paris, who had executed for the khan a silver tree supported by four lions, and ejecting four different liquors.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire