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  • We passed by tea gardens, rice fields, and grass plains; we left the village behind us and went in the direction of the river, and came into forests of strange foreign trees, bamboo and mango, tamarind, teak and salt trees, oil — and gum-bearing plants — Heaven knows what they all were; we had, between us, but little knowledge of the things.

    Pan 2003

  • Deeper down, they entered among gum-bearing acacias and fruit-trees.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • We passed by tea gardens, rice fields, and grass plains; we left the village behind us and went in the direction of the river, and came into forests of strange foreign trees, bamboo and mango, tamarind, teak and salt trees, oil -- and gum-bearing plants -- Heaven knows what they all were; we had, between us, but little knowledge of the things.

    Pan Knut Hamsun 1905

  • The origin of Balsam was for a long time a secret, but it is now known to have been the produce of several gum-bearing trees, especially the Pistacia lentiscus and the

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • There are no fruit-trees or gardens, beyond the growing of a few melons and vegetables; but trees abound on the vast plains of Timbuctoo, and there is a great number of the Tholh, or gum-bearing acacia.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

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