"Sweet bay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lovely than any of the shrubs along the river was that small tree known as the sweet bay or the swamp laurel. Of course it is not a laurel at all, but a magnolia (Magnolia glauca), and its glistening leaves, dark green above, silvery beneath, are set around the large, solitary flowers at the ends of the branches, like ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... all nothing again, she exclaims at the white lilies that rise against masses of sweet bay along the further wall.... ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells |
