. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 269 JUNE-BERRY. SERVICE-BERRY. {Plate CXL VI.) Aviehinchier Canadensis. MAY-CHERRY. FAMILY Apple. SHAPE Heady round-lopprii: branches, spreading. HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM xo-ya/eetyOr New Foundland west- March-May. higher. ward, southward to Fruit: June^ July. Fla. and Louisiana. Bark: purplish brown; ridged. Bud-scales and bracts: sticky. Leaves: simple; alternate; slender petioled; ovate, with at times, bristle-pointed apex and rounded or slightly cordate base ; finely serrate ; chirk green and
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 269 JUNE-BERRY. SERVICE-BERRY. {Plate CXL VI.) Aviehinchier Canadensis. MAY-CHERRY. FAMILY Apple. SHAPE Heady round-lopprii: branches, spreading. HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM xo-ya/eetyOr New Foundland west- March-May. higher. ward, southward to Fruit: June^ July. Fla. and Louisiana. Bark: purplish brown; ridged. Bud-scales and bracts: sticky. Leaves: simple; alternate; slender petioled; ovate, with at times, bristle-pointed apex and rounded or slightly cordate base ; finely serrate ; chirk green and dull above, paler below and becoming glabrous at maturity; thick. Flowers : white; large; growing in terminal, loose racemes and appearing before the leaves. Calyx : five-cleft. Corolla : of five almost linear petals notched at the apex. ^/(/;«^«j ; numerous. Pistils: numerous. Fruit: a small red or pur- plish pome; sweet; edible. Even ; diose,—and there are perhaps many,—that walk through the woods and pastures without ever hearing the music passing through the tree-tops and quivering in the insects' wings, and whose eyes are never caught by the subtle unfold- ings of spring, the white bloom of the shad-bush, gleaming through the almost bare branches of other trees, must be an event in the year. There is no passing it by ; it is one of the spirits of nature that the dullest eye must see and admire. Even the pink of its buds is an exquisite tint. The fleecy white petals seem to wave and beckon in the breezes as though to attract the attention, and do so at a season of the year when there is little foliage to hide them from view. It is then that the knowing ones sigh as with relief and feel grateful that the spring is indeed on its way. The winter has passed ; the shad are running in the waters. All along the shrub is a leader of the seasons. As early as June its fruit becomes crimson, and at the approach of autumn the leaves turn bright yellow. The Indians and birds seem
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