Class trips were invariably to Fort George or the Sir Adam Beck generating station or a maple syrup ‘sugar bush’.
A typical sugar camp or sugar bush encompassed an area of some 900 taps or cuttings, with up to three taps made per tree.
Pull out the images that they know: street-corner hockey rinks; sap flowing in the sugar bush; the hard, clear line of the Laurentians; men and clattery combines on the Prairies.
You don't need a 40-acre sugar bush to enjoy this ritual.
Because of its tolerance to shade, sugar maples are among the few seedlings that grow well in the dense shade of a maple forest - also called a ‘sugar bush’ - contributing to its dominance in many areas.
2South African
another term for protea
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So, when she saw plants labelled ‘sugar bush’ in a nursery, she bought and planted them.
Definition of sugar bush in US English:
sugar bush
(also sugarbush)
noun
A plantation of sugar maples.
糖槭园，糖槭林
Example sentencesExamples
Pull out the images that they know: street-corner hockey rinks; sap flowing in the sugar bush; the hard, clear line of the Laurentians; men and clattery combines on the Prairies.
Because of its tolerance to shade, sugar maples are among the few seedlings that grow well in the dense shade of a maple forest - also called a ‘sugar bush’ - contributing to its dominance in many areas.
A typical sugar camp or sugar bush encompassed an area of some 900 taps or cuttings, with up to three taps made per tree.
Class trips were invariably to Fort George or the Sir Adam Beck generating station or a maple syrup ‘sugar bush’.
You don't need a 40-acre sugar bush to enjoy this ritual.