Black-birch
sweet birch.
Historical Examples
The Louisa Alcott Reader Louisa M. Alcott
Fisherman’s Luck Henry van Dyke
The Box-Car Children Gertrude Chandler Warner
The College, the Market, and the Court Caroline H. Dall
The Maid-At-Arms Robert W. Chambers
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