Plants Growing in Dry Soil : Upland 

 Places, Thickets and Meadows. 



" The rain-drops glistened on the trees around, 

 Whose shadows on the tall grass were not stirred, 

 Save when a shower of diamonds, to the ground, 

 Was shaken by the flight of startled bird ; 

 For birds were ^varbling round, and bees were heard 

 About the flowers." 



Bryant. 



SHAD-BUSH. JUNE-BERRY. SERVICE-BERRY. 



(Plate CXXXIV^ 

 Ameldnchier Canddensis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple. White. Faint. New England. March-May. 



Flowers : growing in loose racemes. Calyx ; five-cleft. Corolla : of five al- 

 most linear petals notched at the apex. Stametis : numerous. Pistils: nu- 

 merous ; styles, five. Fruit : a small purplish pome, sweet and agreeable to the 

 taste. Leaves ; on petioles ; ovate ; rounded at the base ; serrated. A shrub or 

 tree, sometimes reaching the height of sixty feet. 



" Gay circles of anemones 



Danced on their stalks ; the shad-bush white with flowers 

 Brightened the glens." BRYANT. 



When the shad begin to frolic in the spring waters this beau- 

 tiful shrub unfolds its fleecy petals by the pasture thickets. As 

 we wander forth, it waves and beckons to us the joyful tidings 

 that the spring has indeed come. The translucent, pale green 

 of its leaves and the soft creamy whiteness of the bloom speak 



