PAET IV 



MISCELLANEOUS TYPES 



CHAPTER XIX 



OTHER SPECIES OF BUSR-FRUITS 



Although the foregoing pages describe all the bush- 

 fruits which have any commercial importance in culti- 

 vation, there are certain other types which are either 

 coming into domestication or which are occasionally 

 seen in private gardens. To these we shall now give 

 attention. 



BUFFALO BERRY 



LEPARGYILEA ARGENTEA (Nutt.), Greene. Shepherdia argentea, 



Nutt. 



The buffalo berry is a thorny, deciduous shrub, growing from 

 5-20 feet high, with a whitened or silvery appearance throughout. 

 Its leaves are narrow, l-l/^ inches long, pointed at the base, 

 entire, and silvery white on both sides. The flowers are small, 

 yellow and dioecious. The fruit is round or ovoid, scarlet, or 

 more rarely yellow, with a single smooth seed, and a sprightly acid 

 and agreeable flavor. It is borne in very compact clusters in the 

 axils of the small branches, ripening in July, but remaining on 

 the bushes till frost, or later. The plant occurs throughout the 

 Plains, westward to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and from the 

 Saskatchewan southward to the mountains of New Mexico. 



The name buffalo berry is said to have been derived from the 



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