hoary-barked

Updated: May 26, 2025

This plant, like the red-berried briony of England, is highly ornamental. A pure spring of cold, delicious water welled out from beneath the twisted roots of an old hoary-barked cedar, and found its way among the shingles on the beach to the lake, a humble but constant tributary to its waters.

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill - Canadian Crusoes

A pure spring of cold, delicious water welled out from beneath the twisted roots of an old hoary-barked cedar, and found its way among the shingle on the beach to the lake, a humble but constant tributary to its waters.

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill - Lost in the Backwoods