sugar bush

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a grove of sugar maples.

Quotations

1804

Henries Squaw & family Came from the Sugar Bush. They say the Maples give no more water.

1852

The whole block of land was almost entirely covered with maple trees, and had originally been an Indian sugar-bush.

1901

Taking each a bundle of spiles and an ax, the boys set out for the part of the sugar bush as yet untapped, and began their work.

1966

Every year . . . a reporter must . . . trudge down a muddy lane to somebody's sugar bush and do a story on the annual sap run.