"Sweet gum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a roof seen above the low underbrush of young pines, holly and sweet gum, was a building of some kind toward which the path turned abruptly. A hundred yards ahead the woods ceased, and Gus knew that beyond were the ever-shifting sand dunes crowned with their short-lived scrub oaks or pines and tufts of beach grass which bordered ...
— Radio Boys Loyalty - Bill Brown Listens In • Wayne Whipple
... {Sweet Gum.} The sweet Gum-Tree, so call'd, because of the fragrant Gum it yields in the Spring-time, upon Incision of the Bark, or Wood. It cures the Herpes and Inflammations; being apply'd to the Morphew and Tettars. 'Tis an extraordinary ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson
... deep, then turned out and laid on the highest shelf in the lumber house to await molding time. Cakes of beeswax were kept in the Jackson press, so children, white and black, could not take bites for chewing. It ranked next to native sweet gum for such uses—but Mammy felt it had much better be saved to mix with the tallow at melting time. It made the candles much firmer, also bettered their light, and moreover changed the tallow hue to an agreeable very pale yellow. ...
— Dishes & Beverages of the Old South • Martha McCulloch Williams
... as the sweet gum, which rose like a giant plume of yellow and orange, a chief in joyous finery, where the cypress was only a ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend |
