JUNE-BERRY 
JUNE-BERRY. SHAD BUSH. SERVICE-BERRY. 
Amelanchier canadénsis. 
Amelanchier is derived from Amelancier, the popular name of the 
European species. 
A medium sized tree with a tall slender trunk and small spreading 
branches which form a narrow, oblong head. It ranges throughout 
eastern United States, southward to Florida and westward to Min- 
nesota. Prefers rich soil in upland woods. On the mountains 
of North Carolina and Tennessee it reaches its greatest size. Roots 
fibrous. 
Bark.—Pale red brown, divided into narrow ridges the surface of 
which is scaly. Branchlets bright green, later become dark brown 
or purplish brown, smooth. 
Wood.—Dark brown, sometimes tinged with red; heavy, hard, 
close-grained and strong. Sp. gr., 0.7838; weight of cu. ft., 48.85 
lbs. 
Winter Buds.—Chestnut brown, acute, one-fourth of an inch 
long. Inner scales enlarge with the growing shoot and are some- 
times an inch long before they fall. 
Leaves.—Alternate, simple, ovate to ovate-oblong, three to four 
inches long, one and a half to two inches broad, cordate or rounded 
at base, serrate, acute or acuminate. Feather- veined, midrib 
grooved above, prominent beneath. They come out of the bud 
conduplicate, reddish brown and hairy, when full grown are smooth, 
deep green above, paler beneath. In autumn they turn a bright 
yellow. Petioles slender, grooved. Stipules lanceolate, downy, 
early deciduous. 
Flowers.—April, when leaves are about one-third grown. Per- 
fect, white, borne in racemes from three to five inches long. Each 
flower has a slender pedicel, furnished with two lanceolate, purplish 
silky bractlets which fall as the flower opens. 
Calyx.—Campanulate, five-lobed; lobes lanceolate, acute, 
downy, persistent, imbricate in bud. 
Corolla.—Petals five, white, strap-shaped, one-half inch to an 
inch in length, inserted on the calyx tube, imbricate in bud. 
Stamens.—Twenty, inserted on the calyx tube; filaments per- 
sistent in fruit; anthers introrse, two-celled; cells opening longi- 
tudinally. 
Pistil.—Ovary two to five-celled, united to calyx tube. Styles 
two to five, with broad stigmas; ovules two in each cell. When 
mature each cell has been divided by a cartilaginous partition, giv- 
ing ten cells and one seed in each. 
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