In any event, his landscapes were resolutely American, chock-full of fruited plains and purple mountains' majesty.

For amber waves of grain, For purple mounted majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Above the fruited plain!

'Purple mountains' majesty, above the fruited plain' . . ." he quoted.

In the commercial Waxter walks Hugo along an Appalachian ridgeline at sunrise while talking, voice-over, about America rising above the fruited plain.

Were they reading childbirth manuals in their covered wagons while they crossed the fruited plains?

When she said "harmony," there was harmony, from the amber waves of grain to above the fruited plain.

"The anthem about the fruited plain," Mrs. Scully said sadly, "I don't think this is what they had in mind."

It could be heard from sea to shining sea, o'er purple mountains' majesty and upon the fruited plain.

"Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain," a typical intro would go.