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n. - Erect European shrub having solitary flowers and blue-black fruit.

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  • On either side stretched an expanse of gorse and whinberry bushes, interspersed with patches of grass, where sheep were feeding.
  • For a summer treat why not plant the Highbush Blueberry, related to our own whinberry, but as an import from America that much larger.
  • On and on over what seemed an interminable reach of coarse grass and whinberry-bushes, jumping tiny brooks, and skirting round sometimes to avoid bogs, for much of the...
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