Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seed dispersal of desert plants] Reference

Could we digress and talk about hackberry trees for a minute?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

The horrible hackberry tree is finally shedding some of its leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Clues « Fairegarden] Reference

Fringes of cottonwood, willow, and hackberry occur along some streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

Those gazillions of hackberry trees shaded my property somewhat fierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Among the larval food for her that grows near us is the hackberry tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plant It And They Will Come « Fairegarden] Reference

Our furniture was made of oak 'cepting de chairs, and dey was made out of hackberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

The hackberry and the first specimens of the palo verde were found in this vicinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

Green ash and hackberry are also hardy against both cold and moisture, but of slow growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

The paths themselves are being made from the mulch of the hackberry trees that we cut down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

I know some of you out there think highly of the hackberry, for its good insect food production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plant It And They Will Come « Fairegarden] Reference

The roof was shaded by hackberry trees, and the grass around it was like velvet, so thick and green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantation Sketches] Reference

Listen here to the sounds of Kurotaro, 's ancient hackberry, offered as requiem to the South Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: The Stones of the Golden Women: Requiem for Tsunamis Past and Present] Reference

Enemies: The hackberry is usually free from disease, though often its leaves are covered with insect galls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Also present are the threatened yellow-wood (Zanthoxylem flavum) and southern hackberry (Celtis laevigata).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bermuda subtropical conifer forests] Reference

The human condition put names to everything: bloodroot rockflower whip-poor-will, tulip bitternut hackberry.    From Wordnik.com.  ['American Rust'] Reference

We hunt fox squirrels in the tangled oak and hackberry woods of Bayou Morengo and the Ouachita River sloughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squirrel Town, USA: Hunting the Cajun Passover] Reference

The presence of birds may be encouraged by planting hackberry and other trees or shrubs of which they are fond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921] Reference

Riparian vegetation includes cottonwood, willow, hackberry, and big bluestem grasses with alien elms and saltcedars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

Stream bottoms were often wooded with bur oak, Shumard oak, sugar hackberry, elm, ash, eastern cottonwood, and pecan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

The house wasn't far, but small hills and boulders and stands of Chinese elm and hackberry trees hid it from the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Called Jesse]

I've seen box blinds in Texas painted blue, guess it better than a plywood box sticking above the mesquite and hackberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [is mossy oak tree stand really work beacus it looks blueish] Reference

In riparian areas, where limestone has been eroded away to expose underlying clays, American elm, hackberry, and pecan are native.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference

Between the two rivers was another footing of about two acres, bearing several hackberry trees, and it was on this bank up the Grand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

I was amused to discover that the yard where the garden sits was once riddled with lugustrums and hackberry trees, just as mine is now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Behind a Successful Organic Garden] Reference

The men walked over to the entrance gate and stood in a little circle in the shade of a hackberry growing through a rotted tractor tire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Safe] Reference

The park contains oak, elm, silver maple, basswood, hackberry and cottonwood trees, as well as native and prairie woodland wild flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference

Berkeley, who rests beneath the shadow of the great hackberry tree that is said to have been brought over, a slender sapling, from England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

On a cool, canvas-covered cot in the shade of the hackberry trees Sam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

"Shall we take the peas out under the hackberry and shell them," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inez A Tale of the Alamo] Reference

Species include ponderosa pines, blue spruces, aspen and hackberry trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

Timber is found on both sides; generally hackberry, cotton-wood, and ash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe] Reference

High overhead, a thicket of hackberry and arrow-weed overhung the little valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copper Streak Trail] Reference

That evening Sam and old man Ellison dragged their chairs out under the hackberry trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

Of the various species of oak, elm, ash, linden, hackberry, &c. it is unnecessary to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference