ROSE FAMILY 
Fruit.—Berry -like pome, depressed-globula. or pyriform, 
open at the summit, crowned with the calyx lobes and remnants of 
the filaments. One-third to one-half of an inch long, rich purple 
with slight bloom. Ripens in June, is sweet, with delicious flavor. 
Seeds dark brown; cotyledons thick. 
At the time when the hazy, misty cloud of bursting buds 
rests over the wooded hillside, a single tree suddenly de- 
taches itself from the cloudy mist and stands forth clothed 
in soft, feathery, indeterminate white. This is tke June- 
berry, otherwise known as the Shad Bush. ‘This homely 
name of Shad Bush was given it by the early inhabitants of 
the eastern states because it chances to bloom by the side 
of our tidal rivers at the time that the shad ascends them to 
spawn, 
We know that nature’s methods are gradual, that species 
are not cut apart by sharp divisions, but itis not often that 
we are permitted to trace the process of species-making, step 
by step. The June-berries permit us to do this. There are 
in America two well-defined species, the Atlantic, 4. cana- 
densis and the Pacific, 4. alnifolia ; they differ in form of 
flower, shape of leaf, and size of fruit. Yet they are one, 
though two. 
On one side of the continent the mist-laden atmosphere of 
the low lands and the cold winds from the Atlantic have de- 
veloped a. canadensis, On the other side the subtle influ- 
ence of a clearer atmosphere, together with a higher altitude 
and warmer winds has produced 4. a/u/folia. 
On the Rocky Mountains where the two forms meet they 
nsensibly melt into each other and it is not possible to say 
where one species ends and the other begins, nor of many in- 
dividuals to which household they belong. Both can be 
referred to an earlier arctic form which, driven southward 
by the glaciers, returned to such different environments, that 
two species developed and the intermediate forms persist. 
Our June-berry is little known save in its native haunts. 
Its leaves somewhat resemble those of the pear, but are finer 
and more delicate, covered with a soft, silken down as they 
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