on-tree

Updated: June 19, 2025

Potatoes and cabbage'll do for a kind of a delicacy, sort of a side-dish, on-tree, you know; but give 'em beans for a steady diet. Why, off there in Chili, even, the people regularly live on beans, not exactly like ours, broad and flat, but they're beans. Wa'n't there some those ancients old Horace, or Virgil, may be rung in something about beans in some their poems?"

William Dean Howells - A Modern Instance