On the wildapple trees of Massachusetts see an interesting chapter in Thoreau, Excursions.
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The wildapple of this country is a small tree growing in thickets, natural orchards.
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Then with a triumphant, vindictive smile which puckered his yellow cheeks like a wildapple, he said:
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The young wildapple trees, then flushed with their fragrant blossoms, were now hung thickly with ruddy fruit.
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They turned and walked together to the last buggy hitched against the stone wall under the wildapple trees.
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The wild strawberry, like the wildapple, is spicy and high-flavored, but, unlike the apple, it is also mild and delicious.
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Let us, too, stay and watch the petals fall one by one from a wildapple and float down on the stream.
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When the first settlers arrived in these lands, they found a number of small, hairy creatures sitting in a wildapple tree eating fruit.
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From them he gathers that " wildapple-trees, too, are not uncommon in the hedges," and straightway he informs the public of this wonder.
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The background was a short, steep beach of soft, snow-white sand, fringed at the high-water margin with a dense jungle of wildapple and pandanus-trees.
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She found wildapples, plums and turnips on the knoll above the glade.
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A simple-minded bear delights in maize, honey, wildapples and raspberries.
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What happens when the wild potatoes and wildapples are gone?
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The wildapples, celebrated by Thoreau, are mostly of her planting.
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White gum trees grew along its banks, as did wildapples and plums.