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  • And she's got the berries: a big thicket of raspberries and a tangle of high-bush blueberries in a chicken wire cage to keep the birds away.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Becca 2005

  • And she's got the berries: a big thicket of raspberries and a tangle of high-bush blueberries in a chicken wire cage to keep the birds away.

    Blueberry Buckle Becca 2005

  • At Arrows we grow so-called high-bush blueberries, which produce large fruit every year on 4-foot-tall bushes.

    THE ARROWS COOKBOOK Clark Frasier 2003

  • Outside, it's steamy and thick for May, the ferns and high-bush cranberries beside the side door and the shed grabbing at my bell-bottoms and peasant blouse.

    There Is A Season Early, Margot 1999

  • In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.

    The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

  • The area for some distance in the vicinity of the cave was stripped of blueberries, high-bush cranberries, and from the lower elevations, raspberries and wild mountain blackberries.

    The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

  • On the other side are thick set the thorny stalks of last summer's "high-bush" blackberries.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • Never were high-bush blackberries finer or riper; but the largest and ripest seemed always the hardest to get at.

    The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 Various

  • In other fields grew great store of high-bush blackberries.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • Not often have I seen, for instance, our high-bush cranberry planted, although it certainly is one of the most beautiful shrubs to grow in copses.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

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