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Definition of Southern dewberry
1. Noun. Of southern North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Dewberry
Literary usage of Southern dewberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"The Rubus villosus, to which the term dewberry is usually restricted in the North,
is much like the southern dewberry, Rubus trivialis, in appearance. ..."
2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"The Southern dewberry blooms in March, and matures its fruit in May. It is found
in sandy soils from Virginia to Florida, and from thence westward. ..."
3. Annual Report (1892)
"Rubus Canadensis, to which the term dewberry is usually restricted in the north,
is much '—' like the southern dewberry,/?w- ~ bus trivialis, in appearance. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... white ; petals much exceeding the In dry sandy soil, Virginia to Florida, west
to Texas. Called also southern dewberry. March-May. ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... (this name is sometimes applied to the straw berry-raspberry, R. illecebrosus).
—*strigosus. —*trivialis (Southern dewberry). ..."
6. American Horticultural Manual by Joseph L. Budd, Niels Ebbesen Hansen (1908)
"The Southern dewberry (Rubus trivialis) has also given some varieties of value
which have become commercial in the South. The Western species (Rubus ..."
7. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"Low Bush Blackberry, Southern dewberry. Stems shrubby, procumbent, terete, beset
with strongly recurved or reflexed prickles, glaucous or hirsute with ..."
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