the berries

• “The blossom is white and wax-like, with a faint perfume, and the berries grow on a branch like gooseberries.”

  Six Months in Mexico

• “There were fish in abundance, the paupaw and the berries which grew abundantly in the forest.”

  The Memories of Fifty Years

• “A decoction or infusion of the berries is a valuable tonic in ague and fever.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “Both legends say that the berries were the food of the Tuatha de Danaan, or faeries.”

  Simon & Schuster: Under The Moon

• “Scarcely any parish where there are not some visibly appearing, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, fearing God, and walking unblamably with a right foot, as beseemeth the gospel; though in some places they are but like the berries after the shaking of an olive-tree.”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “Both the bark and fruit of this shrub is a very powerful cathartic: it is very active and drastic in its operation, unless used in combination with other articles to moderate its effects -- the berries is the part generally used for the cathartics, and when taken alone, they produce griping sickness and dryness of the mouth and throat, -- leaving a thirst of long continuance.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “Before I had left the country of my host, while the first rays of the sun slanted over the mountains, as I stopped by the wayside to gather some raspberries, a very old man, not far from a hundred, came along with a milking-pail in his hand, and turning aside began to pluck the berries near me: --”

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

• “If Olikea were here, I thought hazily, she would bring me the berries and roots and leaves that sustained my magic.”

  Renegade's Magic

• “The only difference which can be depended upon, is this: the uva ursi has ten stamina or uprights, and the berries contain only five seeds each, while the bilberry or red myrtle has but eight stamina in the flower, and sometimes twenty seeds in the berry.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “The result, after hours of steaming, had a heavy, puddinglike consistency that retained the shape of the basket after it was removed, and while not sweet, though the berries gave it a light fruit flavor, was deliciously rich.”

  The Mammoth Hunters

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