Citations:appletree


 * 1720–23,,  (1726), part II: A Voyage to , chapter v, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. (new edition, nineteen volumes), volume VI (1801), ed. Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, page 126:
 * I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf appletrees, I must need show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language, as it does in ours.
 * 1879, and Charles Short, , Oxford at the, “mālus²”:
 * mālus², i, f., Gr. μηλέα, // I. an appletree: “malus bifera,” Varr. R. R. 1, 7: “et steriles platani malos gessere valentes,” Verg. G. 2, 70: “malus granata,” the pomegranate, Isid. 17, 7, 6: “felices arbores putantur esse quercus…malus, etc.,” Macr. S. 3, 20, 2.
 * 1916,, , (1964 revised reissue), ISBN 0140042210 (10), ISBN 9780140042214 (13), page 250, entry for the 5th of April:
 * O life! Dark stream of swirling bogwater on which appletrees have cast down their delicate flowers.