Amelanchier canadensis. 
THE CANADIAN AMELANCHIER. 
Mespilus canadensis, 
Mespilus arborea, 
Amelanchier c. botryapium, 
Amelanchier botryapium, 
Grand Amelanchier, Amelanchier de 
Ohoisy, Alizier de ^ Choisy, Ahzier 
a grappes, Bois de fleche, 
Traubenbirne, 
Amelanchier di Canada, 
Canadian Medlar, Snowy Mespilus, 
Snowy-blossomed Amelanchier, 
Wild Pear-tree, Sugar Plum, June-Berry, 
Shad-blow, Shad-flower, 
Synor.ymes 
Linnaeus, Species Plantarum. 
Michaux, North American Sylva. 
Torrey and Gray, Flora of North America. 
De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Hooker, Flora Boreali-Americana. 
{ Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
France. 
Germany. 
Italy. 
Britain. 
Anglo-America. 
Derivations The specific name, botryapium, is derived from the Greek botrus, a grape, in reference to the form of the 
fruit and the Celtic apon, water, probably from the circumstance of this species usually growing along streams and in swampy 
grounds The Ge man name signifies. Grape-pear. It is called June Berry, on account of the ripening of its fruit in some parts 
of the country in the month of June, before that of any other tree ; and it is named Shad-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. 
Enravin<rs. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 66; Audubon, Birds of America, i., pi. lx. ; Loudon, Arboretum Britan- 
nicum, ii., 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. 
^j^|HE Amelanchier cana- 
densis, in favourable 
situations, sometimes 
Wtefit&Mi attains a height of thir- 
ty or tony 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. 
