DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS, 3895 
DESORIPTIVE LIST OF HARDY FLOWERING SHRUBS, 
SUITABLE FOR THE SHRUBBERY, LAWNS, ETO. 
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AMELANCHIER,.—Jonn-nerry.—Smap-Bvsu. 
{A name by which one of the species is known in Savoy.} 
Amelanchier Canadénsis.—June-berry, Shad-bush, Sug- 
ar Pear.—A shrub so variable that in its different states it 
has received at least a dozen different names. It is found 
as a low shrub and as a tree twenty feet high. Its leaves 
differ much in shape and smoothness, and the flowers are 
in some forms much larger and produced in greater abund- 
ance than they are in others. It is found along streams 
and in woods, and is conspicuous about the first of May 
for its white flowers in pendulous racemes. The crimson 
or purple bracts at the base of the flower-stalks, con- 
trasted with the pure white flowers, and the glossy, silken, 
- scattering pairs of the opening leaves, give a delicate 
beauty to this shrub. The fruit is berry-like and eatable. 
Easily transferred from the woods to the shrubbery. 
AMORPHA,—Fatse Invrco. 
[Named from the Greek, meaning wanting form, from the absence of parts of 
the corolla.] 
Amorpha fruticésa,—False Indigo.—A native shrub, 
found on the banks of streams from Pennsylvania, west- 
ward. It is very variable, and its different forms have ré- 
ceived several distinct names. It grows about six fect 
high, has foliage somewhat like that of the Locust, and 
long spikes of dark-violet purple flowers which appear in 
July. Of easy propagation by seeds or by cuttings, 
