Right at the road's edge grew Christmas lady, sensitive and woodsia ferns, mealy-bell-wort, true and false Solomon's Seal, ground ginger, greenbrier, smilax and flaming cardinal flowers which were lit up with flying gleams of sunshine, forming great masses of tremulous shifting mosaic of rarer and older designs than any that Persia or India yet know.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
"On the night of the great meteoric shower, in Nov 1833. I was at Remley's tavern, 12 miles west of Lewisburg, greenbrier Co.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
They wander on their own gentle, untrammelled way, hither and yon, here beset by heavy forest growth, there a tangle of greenbrier and scrub oaks, losing you often, picking you up again when you least expect it, but always leading you off the humdrum highway of today into the gentle wildernesses of old time romance.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard