Amclanchier canadctisis, 

 THE CANADIAN AMELANCIIIER. 



Synor.ymes 



Mespilvs canadensis, 

 Mapilus arhorca, 

 Amtlancfiier c. botryapium, 



A.mdanchier botryapium, 



Grand Amelanchier, Amclanchier de 



Choisy, Alizier de Choisy, Alizier 



a ^rappes, Bois de flcche, 

 Traubeiibirne, 

 Amelanchier di Canada, 

 (;anadian Medlar, Snowy Mespilus, 



Snowy-blosbomed Amelanchier, 

 Wild Pear-tree, Sugar Plum, June-Berry, 



Shad-blow, Shad-flower, 



LiNN^os, Species Plantarum. 



]\IicnAux, North American Sylva. 



ToRREY AND GiiAv, Flora ol'North America. 



De Candoli.e, Pnxlri>mus. 



Hooker, Flora Boreali-Americana. 



Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 



France. 



Germany. 

 Italy. 



Britain. 

 Anglo-America. 



Denvatiotu. The specific name, botryapium, is derived from the Greek bolrus, a grape, In reference to the form of the 

 fruit, and the Celtic apon, water, probably from liie circumstance of this species usually growing along streams and in swampy 

 grounds. The German name signifies Grape-pear. It is called June Bi-.rry, on account of ihe ripening of its fruit In some parts 

 of the country in the month of June, bufore that of any other tree ; and it is named Shnd blow because the opening of its blos- 

 soms indicates the season at which the shad ascend the rivers, on the banks of which It sometimes abounds. 



Engravings. MIchaux, North American Sylva, pi. 66 ; Audubon, Birds of America, i., pi. Ix. ; Loudon, Arboretum Britan- 

 nicum, 11., fig. 623, and vi., pi. 162 et 163; and the figures below. 



Specific Characters. Leaves oblong-elliptical, cuspidate, somewhat villous when young, afterwards gla 

 brous. De Candolle, Prodromus. 



Description. 



HE Amelanchier cana- 

 densis, in favonrable 

 situations, sometimes 

 attains a height of thir- 

 ty or lorty feet, with a diameter of ten or 

 twelve inches. Its leaves are from two to three 

 inches long, alternate, of a lengthened oval 

 shape, finely toothed, and, when beginning to 

 open, are covered with a thick, silvery down, 

 which disappears with their growth, and 

 leaves them perfectly smooth on both sides. 

 The flowers, which are white, and rather 

 large, are disposed in long panicles at the ex- 

 tremities of the branches, and expand in the 

 Carolinas and Georgia in February and March, 

 and in the middle and northern states in April 

 and May. The fruit is of a globular form, about one fourth of an inch in diam- 

 eter, red in an immature state, and of a dark-purple when fully ripe, and is 

 covered with a bloom. It matures at the south in the month of June, and from 

 one to two months later in the more northern regions where it abounds. Of this 

 fruit, the largest tree rarely yields more than half a pound. 



