406 THE EVOLUTION OP OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



got, I thought the first one the best ; and as some 

 people discouraged the cultivation of some of the 

 varieties because of their rather inferior fruit, I named 

 my variety 'Success.' About 1878 I began to sell the 

 plants under the name Success, and until I sold the 

 larger part of my stock, some three years ago, to 

 J. T. Lovett, of New Jersey, I had sold more than 

 ten thousand plants of this variety." 



This variety Success is of the species Amelancliier 

 Botryapium of DeCaudolle (1825), also known as 

 A. oblongi folia of Roemer (1847). The natural dis- 

 tribution of the species is from New Brunswick to 

 Missouri, although, like the sand cherry and Ameri- 

 cana plum, it appears to give its best fruits in its 

 western ranges. The western dwarf juneberry (A. 1- 

 tiifolia), which extends eastward as far as Lake Supe- 

 rior, has also given rise to varieties which have been 

 named and sparingly introduced to cultivation. The 

 fruits of the Success juneberry are attractive and 

 toothsome, and the plants are exceedingly hardy and 

 productive. Did not the birds appreciate the merits 

 of the fruits, they might soon become popular in 

 gardens. 



The Buffalo -berry 



The buffalo -berry of the Plains (Shepherdia ar- 

 gentea) has long been known as bearing profusely of 

 excellent and variable acid berries. It was not intro- 

 duced to the horticultural trades as a fruit -bearing 

 plant, however, until the fall of 1890, when G. J. and 

 L. E. R. Lambrigger, of Big Horn City, Wyoming, 

 offered plants to the general market. Since that time 

 much has been written, in a fragmentary way, on the 



