Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
When filled with mitchella vines, they brought from a dollar and. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
However, they found less mitchella at Dunham's open than they had hoped. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
It was a long way home, and they had their baskets of mitchella to carry. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
They found several plats of mitchella, and began industriously to gather the vine. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
They hoped to get enough mitchella at the "open" to fill fifteen jars, and so took two bushel baskets. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
Lucia's mother, at Portland, who invented mitchella jars, and started a new industry in our neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
She had been there the winter before with Theodora, and both of them remembered having seen mitchella growing there. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
Mrs. Scribner wrote to Theodora and suggested that she and her girl friends make up some mitchella jars, and sell them in the city. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
Wilbur girls, went into the woods to gather lion's-paw and mitchella with which to decorate the old farmhouse at Thanksgiving and Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
After the linnæa and the arbutus, the prettiest sweet-scented flowering vine our woods hold is the common mitchella vine, called squaw-berry and partridge-berry. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
On one visit they gathered a basketful of mitchella, and when Lucia went home to Portland for Thanksgiving, she carried a small boxful of the vines and berries to her mother. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
The banks are wooded with pines, hemlocks, spruce, arbor vitaæ, beech, birch, and basswood, and the ground is covered with ferns, harebells, arbutus, linnæa, mitchella, blue lobelia, and other wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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