A few apple-trees grow straggling about the field; there were traces also of what had been a kitchen-garden; but the fences were broken down, the vegetables had disappeared, or had grown wild, and turned to little better than weeds, with here and there a ragged Rosebush, or a tall sunflower shooting up from among brambles, and hanging its head sorrowfully, as if contemplating the surrounding desolation.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The casement was choked with the yellow Rosebush and heavy honeysuckle; the fragrance was almost stifling, but Cynthia heeded it not.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
Have you not just awakened suddenly from your first sleep in the Rosebush where you lie, and said: "Surely out there across the silent woods and meadows, where the night swallows London like a camp-fire, a train, a moving street of lighted windows, is speeding through the darkness and the dew, and in one of those little travelling rooms sits Theophil with his eyes fixed on me"?
"The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]"
Richard Le Gallienne