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 shozver of diamonds, to the groujid. 

 Was shaken by the flight of startled bird ; 

 For birds were zvarbling round, and bees were heard 

 About the flower sT 



— Bryant, 



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



(Plate CXXXIV.) 

 Ameldnchier Canadensis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple. White, Faint. Neiv England west- March-May. 



luard and southward 

 to Florida. 



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

 most linear petals notched at the apex. Slame7is : numerous. Pi s It Is : 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, ten to thirty feet high, or 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 



