Plants Growing in Dry Soil: Upland 
Places, Thickets and Meadows. 
“ The rain-drops glistened on the trees around, 
Whose shadows on the tall grass were not stirred, 
Save when a shower of diamonds, to the ground, 
Was shaken by the flight of startled bird ; 
for birds were warbling round, and bees were heard 
About the flowers.” 
—hryant. 
SHAD-BUSH. JUNE-BERRY. SERVICE-BERRY. 
(Plate CX XXIV.) 
Amelanchier Canddenstzs. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Apple. White. Faint. New England. March-May. 
Flowers : growing in loose racemes. Calyx : five-cleft. Corolla : of five al- 
most linear petals notched at the apex. Stamens: numerous. Pistils: nu- 
merous ; styles, five. /vwzt: a small purplish pome, sweet and agreeable to the 
taste. Leaves : on petioles; ovate ; rounded at the base; serrated. A shrub or 
tree, sometimes reaching the height of sixty feet. 
“ Gay circles of anemones - 
Danced on their stalks ; the shad-bush white with flowers 
Brightened the glens.”— BRYANT. 
When the shad begin to frolic in the spring waters this beau- 
tiful shrub unfolds its fleecy petals by the pasture thickets. As 
we wander forth, it waves and beckons to us the joyful tidings 
that the spring has indeed come. The translucent, pale green 
of its leaves and the soft creamy whiteness of the bloom speak 

