CHAPTER XXXII. 
THE JUNEBERRY. 
Its Noticeable Beauty.—Its Attainable Height.—Its Floral and Fruit 
Productiveness.—Its Foliage Described.—The Non-distinctive Dif- 
ference of European and American Varieties.—Its Range of Growth. 
— Soil and Situation Suitable to its Thrift.— Use of its Fruit.— 
The Papaw.—Its Stunted Growth.—Its Floral and Fruit-bearing 
Properties.— Its Limited Latitude of Growth.— Properties of its 
Wood and Fruit. 
Tus tree is only worthy of notice on account of its 
beauty. It reaches the height of thirty or forty feet ; its 
flowers are white and are produced in long panicles; its 
leaves are from two to three inches in length, of a beau- 
tiful oval shape, and smooth on both sides. The fruit is 
about one eighth of an inch in diameter, red in an im- 
mature state, and of a dark purple when fully ripe, and 
is covered with a bloom. Of this fruit the largest tree 
rarely yields more than half a pound. It greatly troubles 
most people to distinguish the European and American 
varieties from each other, as they have so many points 
in common; so much so, that many people class them to- 
gether and make no distinction whatever. The June- 
berry, with the exception of the maritime parts of the 
United States, is spread all over the northern half of the 
Western Continent, from Georgia to Hudson’s Bay. It 
multiplies very rapidly on the fertile banks of streams 
and in swampy ground, although it sometimes occurs in 
dry, rocky places, but then is never of vigorous growth 
and is rather sickly. Its fruit is used for food in North 
America. 
THE PAPAW. 
The papaw is commonly only a large shrub, but by ex- 
