404 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



The Juneberry 



The juneberry grows in many forms over a wide 

 range of North America, particularly in the northern 

 parts, and several varieties have been brought into 

 cultivation from the wild. All these varieties belong 

 to dwarf species. They closely resemble large huckle- 

 berries. 



Only one of these juneberries has gained popu- 

 larity. This is the Success (Fig. 104), the history of 

 which, by H. E. Van Deman, the introducer, is thus 

 told in Annals of Horticulture for 1891: "In Decem- 

 ber, 1873, I was traveling on horseback from my home 

 in Kansas to the annual meeting of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society, and learned by accident of the where- 

 abouts of a fruit, growing in a man's garden, that was 

 called huckleberry. On my way home I hunted up 

 the place, and found the bushes. I was told that this 

 so-called huckleberry bore abundantly every year, 

 and that it had been brought from Illinois to that 

 neighborhood. I afterwards learned that an old man 

 had brought seeds of the dwarf juneberry from the 

 mountains of Pennsylvania to Illinois, and from them 

 grew this variety. When he and his children went to 

 Kansas, about 1868, they took along a stock of the 

 plants, and part of them were set at the place where 

 I found them. I had no trouble in securing a few of 

 the plants, which I immediately took home and set 

 out, and the next year, when the bloom appeared on 

 them, I learned by consulting the botany that it was 

 Amelanchier. The plants grew so well that I went 

 back the next year and got several hundred more, and 

 planted them at my home. All of them grew, and I 



