THE SERVICE-BERRIES 



SLENDER, pretty trees often cultivated. Leaves simple, 

 alternate, deciduous, Flowers white, numerous, in racemes. 

 Fruits small, berry-like, with 4- to 10-celled core. 



SERVICE BERRY; SHAD BUSH; JUNE BERRY (Amelanchier 

 Canadensis, T & G.). 15 to 40 feet. Slender, round-topped 

 or pyramidal tree with twigs at first silky. Bark purplish, or 

 red-brown, furrowed into squarish plates. Wood heavy, very 

 hard, close, dark, used for tool-handles and fuel. Leaves oval 

 or oblong, serrate, tapering, smooth, 3 to 4 inches long, mid- 

 ribs grooved above; petioles slender; autumn color yellow. 

 Flowers in April, before leaves, white, in loose, drooping 

 racemes, with silky, red bracts and five narrow petals spread- 

 ing 1 inch. Fruit a flattened, red berry, juicy, sweet, with 

 10-celled core containing seeds. Ripe in early summer. 

 Dist. : Newfoundland to Dakota; south to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Cultivated as an ornamental nark and lawn tree, and for birds. 



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