72 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



height. It is said to fruit sparingly and to be 

 soon robbed of its fruit by the birds, bluebirds, 

 robins, cedar birds, orioles, downy and hairy 

 woodpeckers. I have been fortunate enough to 

 know it in prolific seasons, when the trees stood 

 laden with red and purplish fruits for two or 

 three weeks. 



Amelanchier is a plant which is much influ- 

 enced by climatic conditions. Two apparently 

 different types exist east and west of the 

 Rockies. On the Rocky Mountains the two 

 merge into each other until they cannot be 

 distinguished. 



The fresh and dried fruits of one variety are 

 said to have been used by the Indians. Dr. 

 Hooker says they make a pudding which is 

 nearly equal to plum pudding. 



Amelanchier Botryapium, or Shad Bush, is a 

 lower plant, sometimes a shrub. The young 

 leaves are more woolly, the racemes shorter 

 and thicker, and the fruit smaller, on shorter 

 stems, and more juicy. It grows in low wet 

 or in swampy woods. 



