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Fiegurm 15.—Common serviceberry, or saskatoon (Amelanchier ainifolia), the most 
common and widely distributed western member of the genus and in many places 
an important browse plant, especially in spring and fall: A, Sterile spray; B, 
flowering spray; C, fruiting spray 
and is grazed more freely than the mature leafage, although, owing 
to local forage conditions, the time of greatest palatability is some- 
times taken to be the late summer and fall. The nutritive prop- 
erties of the species are well known. Wilson, Dinsmore, and: Ken- 
nedy (143, p. 41) give in Table 1 analyses of this species. 
