plum-trees

He and his brother are like plum-trees that grow crooked

Marshall Grossman: FISA and the Caterpillars of the State 2008

In that isle groweth mastick on small trees, and out of them cometh gum as it were of plum-trees or of cherry-trees.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

As now, surely, on whoever was his partner at the nearest of the plum-trees.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

As now, surely, on whoever was his partner at the nearest of the plum-trees.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

The plum-trees were already budding, and the grass smelled of hidden violets.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

The fruit was so plentiful that young hobbits very nearly bathed in strawberries and cream; and later they sat on the lawns under the plum-trees and ate, until they had made piles of stones like small pyramids or the heaped skulls of a conqueror, and then they moved on.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Their plum-trees are of two sorts: the best is that which bears violet-coloured plums, quite like ours, which are not disagreeable, and which certainly would be good if they did not grow in the middle of woods.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

These trees, it would seem, do not love heat; they do not grow so tall as the plum-trees; their wood is very hard and flexible; for the lower branches are sometimes so loaded with fruit that they hang perpendicularly downwards; and if you unload them of their fruit in the evening, you will find them next morning in their natural erect position.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

After supper he sat nodding at the open window, looking out over the plum-trees to the sky beyond, where the black clouds were putting out the stars one by one.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

As we were making our way between the plum-trees and gooseberry-bushes, I perceived a tall figure standing in the midst of a great bed of late-blossoming roses, over which he was bending as if to inhale their fragrance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various