APPLE SERVICE, 
are white, and produced in large bunches, 
almost in form of umbels, at the sides and ends 
of the branches; they are composed of five 
spreading concave petals, shaped like those of 
the Pear Tree, but smaller: these appear in 
May; and are succeeded by roundish berries, 
growing in large bunches, which have a de- 
pressed navel on the top, and turn red in 
autumn, when they begin to ripen, but are 
seldom quite ripe till about Christmas. This 
tree is cultivated in the nursery gardens, and 
sold as a flowering shrub. The blackbirds 
and thrushes are so fond of the fruit, which 
greatly resembles the larger Hawthorn-berry, 
that they devour it as soon as it ripens. How- I 
ever, as it affords good food for these songsters, 
those persons who may be desirous to draw a 
number of them about their habitations, should 
plant some of these trees for that purpose, 
«* In the Island of Jura," say the Editors of 
the Encyclopaedia Britannica, " the juice of 
the berries is employed as an acid for punch. 
It is probable," they add, " that this tree was 
in high esteem with the Druids ; for it is more 
abundant than any other tree, in the neigh- 
bourhood of those Druidical circles of stone, 
so common in North Britain. It is still held, 
