As I have said, it is a low-lying field, between the mesa and the town, with no hillocks in it, but a gentle swale where the waste water of the creek goes down to certain farms, and the hackberry-trees, of which the tallest might be three times the height of a man, are the tallest things in it.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
The flicker devours most of the fruits listed for the two woodpeckers named above, also hackberry, black alder, green brier, bayberries.
"Seed Dispersal"
William J. Beal
Five minutes later they dropped rein in a clump of warty-ridged hackberry bushes and started on afoot.
"Lonesome Town"
Ethel and James Dorrance