broom-corn

It crashed down in a field of broom-corn, where it died crushed and broken, its body pierced through by the sharp stems of the corn.

Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

From that day, it is said, the leaves of broom-corn have been covered with blood-red spots.

Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

In the elbow thus formed the country is of varied character, sometimes luxuriantly fertile, and sometimes extremely bare; fields of maize succeeded by wide spaces covered with broom-corn and uncultivated plains.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

And it happened not many days later that somebody read in our hearing that the broom-corn is a native of India, and that Dr. Franklin was the means of introducing it into this country; from seeing a whisk of it in the hands of a lady he began to examine it -- being of an inquiring mind, as everybody knows -- and found a seed, which he planted.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

There was a cooking-stove, and she was taking pies out of the oven, which she set in a row on a cumbrous wooden bench that filled all the opposite end of the room, and under it were stored bunches of something unknown to me which I found afterwards was broom-corn.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

We did, however, "buy a broom" that we _could_ take -- and an excellent one it proved -- and we accepted a small package of broom-corn seed which the blind workman was anxious we should have, "to plant in some spare spot just to see how it looks when growing."

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

They have about 200 acres of the flats in broom-corn.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Formerly this region was devoted entirely to cattle, but now alfalfa, barley, broom-corn, maize, cotton, wheat, and fruits are being successfully cultivated.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The monkey bounded upon its back and held fast to the wool, while the sheep ran with all its speed to the showman, who held a basin of broom-corn seed as a bait.

The Chinese Boy and Girl 1901

One day, as I rode through a broom-corn field on the back of a little donkey, my feet almost dragging on the ground, I was repeating some of these rhymes, when the driver running at my side said:

The Chinese Boy and Girl 1901