service-tree

The word _book_ is derived from the Saxon _boc_, which comes from the northern _buech_, of _buechans_, a beech, or _service-tree_, on the bark of which our ancestors used to write.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 Various

There are masses of the Russian white service-tree, which here takes the place of both the lilac and the cherry.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

They say they make an excellent jam from the service-tree.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

And he stuffed the bladder with a service-tree peg, brought them to Wilno and sold them to the Franciscan priests, who gave him twenty _skojcow_ [7] he did this to destroy the enemies of Christ's name.

The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Yews, junipers, radiant beeches, and gleams of the service-tree or the white-beam spotted the semicircle of swelling green

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

Yews, junipers, radiant beeches, and gleams of the service-tree or the white-beam spotted the semicircle of swelling green

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Yews, junipers, radiant beeches, and gleams of the service-tree or the white-beam spotted the semicircle of swelling green Down black and silver.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

Here the corn-field raised to heaven its golden sheaves, and the harvesters sang; there, around the purple berries of the service-tree, circled beautiful flocks of the twittering silktails; round the solitary huts, the flowering potato-fields told that the fruit was ripe, and merry little barefooted children sprang into the wood to gather bilberries.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

Besides the trees above-mentioned, Krascheninnikoff relates, that the larch grows on the banks of the river Kamtschatka, and of those that fall into it, but no where else; and that there are firs in the neighbourhood of the river Berezowa; that there is likewise the service-tree (_padus foliis annuis_;) and two species of the white thorn, one bearing a red, the other

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

But there is yet a rare kind of service-tree, frequent in Germany, which we find not in our woods, and they speak of another sort, which bears poyson-berries.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663