SWEETBRIER

sweetbriar, or eglantineĕgˈləntīn, –tēn [O. Fr. from Lat.,=needle], wild rose of Europe (Rosa eglanteria), cultivated and now naturalized in the United States. The bush has fragrant foliage, and in the spring it has pink blossoms (usually single), which are followed by rose hips sometimes used in preserves. Sweetbrier is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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books on: Sweetbrier  - 65 results

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In a Shattered Mirror: The Later Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
Book by Susan Amert; Stanford University, 1992
Subjects: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna--1889-1966--Criticism And Interpretation
...and Akhmatovas choice of the common sweetbrier, a poor relation of the sublime yet...symbolism. Beyond this, however, the sweetbrier itself is transfigured: " Shipovnik...prevratilsia v slovo " SP , 241 /"The sweetbrier smelled so sweet/That it even turned...
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Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R
Book by L. S. Berg; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Botany--Soviet Union, Physical Geography--Soviet Union, Zoology--Soviet Union
...meadows. There are extensive thickets of shrubs in this zone: sweetbrier rose, the abovementioned spiraea, honeysuckle, and others...shrubs is I to 2 m. Dense thickets of different species of sweetbrier rose, up to 1 m. high, are especially characteristic...
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The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman and Lanier
Book by Curtis Hidden Page; Houghton Mifflin, 1905
Subjects: American Poetry
...What airs outblown from ferny dells, And clover-bloom and sweetbrier smells, What songs of brooks and birds, what fruits and...Ind Rise round him in the snow and wind; 70 From his lone sweetbrier Persian Hafiz smiles, And Romes cathedral awe is in his woodland...
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More by Corwin: 16 Radio Dramas
Book by Clifton Fadiman, Norman Lewis Corwin; H. Holt, 1944
Subjects: Radio Plays
APOLLO. A pleasure and an honor. SWEETBRIER. D.Litt. at Sweetbrier. APOLLO. Thank you so much. . . . NICK. He covered a lot of ground, Apollo did, and his modesty and gentle Greek bearing won him many friends. Of course musicians and...
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Memoirs of American Jews, 1775-1865
Book by Jacob Rader Marcus; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955
Subjects: Jews--United States--Biography
...churn. Grandma was the tenderest and most indulgent of grandmas. On the front porch there was trained a sweetbrier, and in this sweetbrier a song sparrow had her nest year after year. Under grandmas bedroom window there was trained a woodbine...
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"Hothouse Flowers and Despair": Reading the Victorian Garden in M.E. Braddon's the Doctor's Wife
Journal article by Narin Hassan; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Braddon, M.E.--Criticism and interpretation, Braddon, M.E.--Works, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, The Doctor's Wife (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...rosebud in his buttonhole, and he carried a bunch of spring flowers--jonquils and polyanthus, pink hawthorn, peonies and sweetbrier--which Mr. Jeffson had gathered and tied up, with a view to their presentation to Isabel--although there were better...
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The Braided Rug, Pennyroyal, and the Pathos of Almira Todd: a Cultural Reading of the Country of the Pointed Firs
Journal article by Ron Welburn; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 17, 1994
Subjects: Culture, Jewett, Sarah Orne, Literary criticism, Novels
...traditional lands are southern coastal Maine), she possesses the intimate knowledge of a traditional medicine person.5 The sweetbrier, sweetmary, balm, borage, wormwood and its relative southernwood, all mentioned as we are introduced to Mrs. Todd...


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magazine articles on: Sweetbrier  - 2 results

 
 
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Competition Guide 2004
Magazine article by Mary Beth Garrick, Andrew Gross; Dance Teacher, Vol. 25, October 2003
Subjects: Contests, Dance, United States
...space, separate dressing space Classes: yes Dance Makers/ Star Makers Competition Director/Contact: Marjorie Perry 310 Sweetbrier Rd Greenville, SC 29615 Phone: 864-244-4959 E-mail: mppdmi@charter.net Website: www.dancemakersinc.com Directors...
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Summer Study Listings
Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 71, January 1997
Subjects: Ballet--Study and teaching, Dance festivals--Directories, Dancing--Study and teaching
...Center. Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical. Int.-Adv. Min. age: 7. Apply by: June 5. Contact: Marjorie Perry, DM, 310 Sweetbrier Rd., Greenville, SC 29615; (864) 244-4959. Myrtle Beach Summer Dance Experience. July 13-Aug. 3, Coastal Carolina...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sweetbrier  - 5 results

 
 
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Sweetbrier
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SWEETBRIER sweetbriar, or eglantine eg l ntin, ten O. Fr. from Lat.,=needle...single), which are followed by rose hips sometimes used in preserves. Sweetbrier is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order...
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Eglantine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EGLANTINE eg l ntin, name for various kinds of rose (family Rosaceae), chiefly sweetbrier , and for a honeysuckle (family Caprifoliaceae). The name eglantine has been much used in English poetry...
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Sweetbriar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SWEETBRIAR see sweetbrier . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...erect or climbing shrubs with five-petaled fragrant flowers. Sometimes the foliage also is fragrant, as in the European sweetbrier , or eglantine. From many of the wild species have been developed the large number of cultivated varieties and hybrids having...
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Brier
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BRIER or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier , and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture...


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