See quotation.
1839. We emerged from the forest, at the base of a lofty, cleared, and grassy hill, with a log-cabin on the summit, prettily situated in front of a grove of tall maples, called in the language of the country a “sugar-bush.”—C. F. Hoffman, ‘Wild Scenes,’ i. 13 (Lond.).
*** Compare with this LUMBER-BUSH, 1850.
