60 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



vated by the colonists ; and among which, judging from 

 what is known of the history of the apple, etc., there 

 may be lying latent an immense amount of capacity for 

 becoming rich and precious, by-and-by to be disclosed. 

 Such may happen with yet another of the Pomiferae, 

 that beautiful small tree, the Amelanchier, in Canada 

 called the June-berry, the innumerable snowy flowers of 

 which are one of the delights of every good garden early 

 in May. The natives of the vast district extending from 

 Hudson's Bay southwards to Florida, and westwards to 

 Nebraska, collect the fruit when ripe, press it into square 

 cakes, and use it with their pemmican. 



