hobble-bush

Floral report includes the usual suspects, plus hobble-bush.

jhetley: Friday roadkill report jhetley 2010

Affronted, the snake writhed off at a good rate of speed into a hobble-bush, and next thing, a loud shriek came from the other side of the bush.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

I hitched up the rope, which was beginning to rub the skin off my shoulder, and began sidling downward through sumac and hobble-bush, bracing my feet against rocks and grabbing at branches to keep from slipping.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

The conspicuous berry-bearing bushes and trees along the shore were the red osier, with its whitish fruit, hobble-bush, mountain-ash, tree-cranberry, choke-cherry, now ripe, alternate cornel, and naked viburnum.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Following Joe's example, I ate the fruit of the last, and also of the hobble-bush, but found them rather insipid and seedy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

The mountain-ash was now very handsome, as also the wayfarer's-tree or hobble-bush, with its ripe purple berries mixed with red.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

On the round table stood a huge Indian jar of pale green porcelain, filled with nodding purple iris; the green glass bowls held double buttercups and hobble-bush sprays, while two portraits, those of Dundee and William the Silent, were wreathed in long garlands of white hawthorn.

Hildegarde's Neighbors Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

The Viburnums are generally well colored at this season; the large leaves of the hobble-bush especially are quite showy now.

Rural Hours 1887

This is the American "wayfaring tree," but on several accounts it scarcely deserves the name; though pretty in its way, it is only a shrub, and instead of giving pleasure to the wanderer, it is frequently an obstacle in his path, for the long branches will sometimes root themselves anew from the ends, thus making a tangled thicket about them; this habit, indeed, has given to the shrub the name of "hobble-bush."

Rural Hours 1887

We went down to the Great Meadow, beyond Mill Island; the wood which borders it was gay with the white blossoms of the wild cherries and June-berry, the wild plum and the hobble-bush, all very common with us.

Rural Hours 1887