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To let her sweeten like a checkerberry.

The Checkerberry Inn in Goshen, Ind., is a good example.

Robert Davis, the chef at the Checkerberry Inn, near Goshen, Ind., creates luxurious dishes with a variety of apples.

This would probably be a good place to spend the night, close to the checkerberry bushes and the beechnut clearing, but she couldn't stay where she had seen the priests.

The version in your yard is probably wintergreen checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens, a member of the heath family (Ericaceae), which gives off a strong fragrance when crushed.

Down the road from the Checkerberry Inn, Amish housewives pick apples in their own orchards and, true to their 19th-century life style, store them in the barn for the winter.

Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry, checkerberry, boxberry, or American wintergreen) is a species of Gaultheria native to northeastern North America from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Alabama.

The doe hadn't been bothered by her crackling, munching progress through the checkerberry tangle, and seemed just mildly annoyed by Trisha's scream-it occurred to Trisha later that this was one deer who would be lucky to survive hunting season come fall.

When she had enough beechnuts to weight down the bottom of the pack, she worked her way slowly back through the checkerberry patch, picking berries and dumping them (the ones she didn't just dump into her mouth) in on top of the nuts.

Robert S. Reichenberg, 89, who has lived his entire life - well, six months of every year - in a cottage on one of the lake's islands, remembers when a floating vegetable salesman would row from Goat Island to Checkerberry Island and on, hawking green beans and corn.

Because the inn prides itself on offering a full range of amenities, including a swimming pool, a croquet green and port wine before dinner, John Graff, the innkeeper, has intentionally chosen not to list Checkerberry in B & B directories or to advertise side by side with B & B's.

Gaultheria procumbens, used by various tribes.

Gaultheria procumbens - Wintergreen (leaves and berries) - the oil can be toxic.

Wintergreen berries, from Gaultheria procumbens, are used medicinally.

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Wintergreens such as Gaultheria humifusa and Gaultheria procumbens are also prostrate growers.

Woody plants of the ground cover layer include American wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) and partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

The version in your yard is probably wintergreen checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens, a member of the heath family (Ericaceae), which gives off a strong fragrance when crushed.

Examples of accessory tissue are the receptacle of strawberries, figs, or mulberries, and the calyx of Gaultheria procumbens or Syzygium jambos.

There are also heaths that are sub-shrubs, usually trailing on the ground, including teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens and trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

Most species of the shrub genus Gaultheria demonstrate this characteristic and are called wintergreens in North America, the most common generally being the Eastern Teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens).

Commercial methyl salicylate is now synthesized, but in the past, it was commonly distilled from the twigs of Betula lenta (sweet birch) and Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry or wintergreen).

Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry, checkerberry, boxberry, or American wintergreen) is a species of Gaultheria native to northeastern North America from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Alabama.

Among the other useful shade-tolerant ground covers are two low-growing shrubs: wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), an American native that is related to the blueberry and rarely exceeds six inches in height, and St. John's wort (Hypericum calycinum), which roots wherever it touches the ground.