LITTLE REGARDED WILD FRUITS 



gardens familiar to every observant visitor at this 

 famous old pueblo. A favorite method of using the 

 berries, according to Stevenson, 2 was to boil them 

 and crush them in a mortar with raw onions, chili 

 and coriander seeds. Among the whites, the Ground 

 Cherries, when used at all, are made into pre- 

 serves. 



In the Eose sisterhood a family that has given 

 us a wealth of garden fruits are a number of wild- 

 ings of more or less food value. Next to the wild 

 strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, none per- 

 haps stands higher in popular favor than the 

 Amelanchier, in popular parlance Service-berry, 

 June-berry, Shad-bush or Sugar-pear. 3 It is found 

 with specific variations in leaf and fruit on both our 

 seaboards, as well as in the Middle West, a small 

 tree or shrub with rather roundish, serrated leaves, 

 and producing in late spring or early summer loose 

 clusters of round or sometimes pea-shaped, crimson 

 or dark-purple berries. These are juicy, with a 

 pleasant taste not unlike huckleberries. To white 

 settlers throughout the continent this berry has 



2 "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians." 



3 Service-berry, a name transferred from an English species of 

 Pyrus, whose fruit was known as serb, serve or service; June- 

 berry, because the fruit generally ripens in June; Shad-bush, be- 

 cause blooming when the shad are running in Eastern rivers. 



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