The alder woods along the banks of the river are among the best in London. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Common Names: The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Our alders also are mere bushes, while the European alder is a full-sized tree, tall as their elms or beeches. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
He arose to stir the sap and pour more from the barrels to the kettles before he began on the tag alder he had gathered. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
But, the three-term alder added, she can't imagine how tough it must be for those who have families and work a full-time day job. From Wordnik.com. [Madison.com - top] Reference
And more than any other tree the alder is the familiar companion of the angler. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Catkins appear most commonly on tag alder (Alnus serrulata), also called hazel alder. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
It also has natural rock and knotty alder finishes. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Auction] Reference
Red brown, 34 from alder, 40 from lichen, 20 from madder, 34. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
The smell of dehydrating alder leaves reminded me it was fall. From Wordnik.com. [Serenity Shattered] Reference
The bark and twigs of alder are used for dyeing brown and black. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Medical personnel hacked through willow and alder to reach the wounded. From Wordnik.com. [Responders Describe Crash Horror] Reference
Now for that little alder coppice at the further end of the marshy swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
He cut an alder shoot about eight feet long, trimmed it, and poked it through the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
And does not an old poet ascribe to our alder the quality of protector to other growths?. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
A few hundred yards on there was an outcrop of rock with alder and scrub oak intermingling. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
The alder-chips then answered, that they were hidden in the caverns of the mountains of Pohjola. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
They stopped, I shut my door gently, and mounted on an alder tree planted against the garden wall. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Robbie's birthday passed off, and Elsie did serve the cake and milk under the alder-tree, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
Andrew Stonyer, KetteringA peculiar contraption is suspended from the branches of three alder trees. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Then when all was ready, he asked the alder-chips to tell him truly where the sun and moon were hid. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
They busied themselves getting a meal ready, and soon brought dishes of peeled poplar and alder bark. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference
It was a wide, rambling, wooden building standing near a grove of unusually fine trees, a sort of alder. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Once or twice he had to burst through thickets of alder, and several times he had to climb over windfalls. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"And are those not big alder trees, Melly?" she continued, pointing to a group of fine pine trees near by. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
The most important of these trees are oaks of many kinds, soft maple, alder, cottonwood, sycamore, and laurel. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
They had not yet attempted the mysteries of dry fly; a fat alder on a No. 1 hook was honour enough for a beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
After a while, mother and brood left the alder thicket, and, as the reapers were now in a distant part of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
The farmer's wife had given her a goose for her very own that day, and the goose had made a nest in the alder bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
The underbrush was wanting to a great extent, but moss was here in large quantities, and thick clusters of alder bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
So he cut three chips from an alder-tree, and laying them on the ground before him, he cast many magic spells over them. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
We always make friends with the somewhat prosaic and even sombre alder, and, in return, it always has something to show us. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Osbaldistone leaped from his horse, and plunged into a thicket of alder trees, where he was almost instantly safe from pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Gwen had scarcely put her eye to the instrument before she exclaimed: "Why, it's a piece of thin outside bark from a twig of alder.". From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Robbie must have some fresh cakes to-morrow for his birthday and a plate of plums, and you can have your tea under the big alder an '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
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