4 Trees with Simple Leaves. [A n 



Leaf y one to two and a half inches long, half to three 

 quarters as wide ; dark green ; thick, smooth, very 

 shining above. Thorns, two to three inches long, 

 rather slender and straight. 



Flowers, white ; fragrant ; in bunches of about fifteen 

 blossoms, on very short side branchlets. June. 



Fruit, about one third inch in diameter ; pear-shaped or 

 round ; red remaining on the tree during the winter. 



Found, along the St. Lawrence and westward, and from 

 Vermont, southward and westward ; not common. 



A small, thick-branching tree, ten to twenty feet high. 

 It is the best species of thorn for hedges. 



Var. pyracanthifblia has a somewhat narrower leaf 

 and longer leaf-stem. 



Genus AMELANCHIER, Medik. (June-berry.) 



Fig. 20. Shad-bush, June-berry t Service Tree. A. Canadtnsis 



(L.), Medik. 



Leaves, SIMPLE ; ALTERNATE ; EDGE VERY SHARPLY ANP 



FINELY TOOTHED. 



Outline, long oval, long egg-shape, or reverse egg-shape, 

 Apex, sometimes bristle-pointed. Base, slightly heart- 

 shaped or rounded. 



Leaf, usually two to three inches long, ^somewhat downy 

 when young, afterward very smooth above and below. 



Bark of branches and twigs usually purplish-brown and 

 very smooth. 



Flowers, large, white, in long and loose clusters at the 

 ^,nds of the branchlets ; appearing before the leaves. 

 April, May. 



