6(5 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



flowers, large leaves which are densely woolly beneath, 

 and obovate fruit, and the latter by small leaves and 

 more or less white-dotted red or yellow fruit quite an 

 inch in diameter. Cratcegus tomentosa is distributed 

 westward from eastern New York, but the other 

 species is common throughout the North and extends 

 as far South as Georgia. 



The last member of the Rose subfamily is the 

 shad bush, or Juneberry {Amelanchier Canadensis) ; 

 sometimes it is called service berry. This shrub we 

 are quite sure to see beside the road, particularly in 

 dry wooded places. It has charmingly plain, shiny, 

 evenly toothed leaves with a smooth texture ; the 

 flowers, which appear just before the leaves, hang in 

 large, drooping, white clusters ; the petals are long 

 and narrow. The fruit, ripe in June, resembles the 

 huckleberry, and in different stages of development 

 is buff, flesh-color, pink, red, purple, and black-pur- 

 ple ; indeed, it is even more beautiful than the grace- 

 ful flowers, and is edible besides ; up in the back 

 country it is called " sugar plums." The shad bush 

 is distributed throughout the North and South ; west- 

 ward its limit is on a line reaching from Minnesota to 

 Louisiana. Throughout the southern region of the 

 White Mountains, and in the vicinity of Mount Mo- 

 nadnoc it is common on the borders of meadow and 

 road. 



