chinaberries

It doesn't appear to have any particular aesthetic or botanical distinction, but in the spring of 1958, when Crowell was 8 years old, his mother, Cauzette Crowell, planted three chinaberries along the sidewalk in front of their house in Jacinto City, a "white-trash garden spot" a few miles due east of Houston.

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011

It doesn't appear to have any particular aesthetic or botanical distinction, but in the spring of 1958, when Crowell was 8 years old, his mother, Cauzette Crowell, planted three chinaberries along the sidewalk in front of their house in Jacinto City, a "white-trash garden spot" a few miles due east of Houston.

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011

And chinaberries, I forget the botanical name, that had pretty fall leaves.

Fallish « Fairegarden 2008

“He raises pigs,” Robert Ray explained, whacking Henry and Ernest with chinaberries to shut them up.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

When the wall was finished, we sat on the warm bricks, thumping each other with chinaberries.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

“He raises pigs,” Robert Ray explained, whacking Henry and Ernest with chinaberries to shut them up.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

When the wall was finished, we sat on the warm bricks, thumping each other with chinaberries.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

And he said, 'They eat chinaberries, and then they drop the chinaberry seeds near the foundation of a house.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

And he said, 'They eat chinaberries, and then they drop the chinaberry seeds near the foundation of a house.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

In dem days dey dried cheneyberries (chinaberries) and painted dem and wo 'dem on a string around dere necks to charm us.

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