Arbuti

The wild olive, the laurel, the oleander, the agnos, various kinds of arbuti, the yellow jasmine, terebinth, lentiscus, and rosemary, with the myrtle and laburnum, richly decorate the margin of the river, while masses of aromatic plants and flowers exhale their varied perfumes and breathe their luscious odours through the scented air.

[…] on the left of which are steps leading to a pretty Coppice, composed of arbuti, Mediterranean heaths, and other shrubs; […]

The vegetation was more or less made up of arbuti, chestnut trees, vines, olives, and aloes.

It is the land, too, of flowering and berried shrubs, Spirea, Berberris of several kinds (including our well-known B. aquifolium), Ribes, numerous Rubus, Gaultheria shalon, sometimes a tree 20 feet high—the Sal-lal of the Indians,—that most striking of arbuti, the Madroña tree, the lovely western dogwood (Cornus nuttallii), two beautiful elders, one red and one blue-berried (Sambucus arborescens and S. glauca), several Rhamnus, and five great blaeberries or Vaccinium, some red and some blue-berried, but all, as a rule, 6 feet high.

But they live so much music and art and literature; they have such a peaceful and dignified grace; and their charm grows like a secret glade of arbuti: to the eye there is only the common beauty of green tangle but the scent perfumes the wind and makes the heart grow large and heavy with love.