. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the ISToETiiEKjsr States and Canada. 243 The Service-bevry is \isually a small tree but occasionally individuals are found 40 or 50 ft. in height with trunk from 18 in. to 2 ft. in diameter, and oblong or spreading rounded top with many small limbs and fine branchlets. It inhabits well drained slopes and uplands in company with the Quaking Asp, Hemlock, White and Red Oaks, Sugar Maple, Hackberry, etc., and in mid-spring, when its top becomes a. veritable cloud
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the ISToETiiEKjsr States and Canada. 243 The Service-bevry is \isually a small tree but occasionally individuals are found 40 or 50 ft. in height with trunk from 18 in. to 2 ft. in diameter, and oblong or spreading rounded top with many small limbs and fine branchlets. It inhabits well drained slopes and uplands in company with the Quaking Asp, Hemlock, White and Red Oaks, Sugar Maple, Hackberry, etc., and in mid-spring, when its top becomes a. veritable cloud of white flowers, it is one of the most beautiful and conspicuous objects in the regions in which it dwells. It is the sea- son then when the shad come up the rivers from the sea to spawn, and hence the association of its flowers with the shad in its names of Shad-bush and Shad-blow. In June and July its ripened fruit is eagerly sought by the birds and should they spare us any it is found to be juicy and delicious. The wood of the Service-berr5^ of which a cubic foot weighs when absolutely dry lbs., is heavy, hard, very strong and close grained, valuable in turnery for the manufac- ture of tool handles and, under the name of " Lance-wood," is used in the manufacture of fish Lrares ovate to ovate-oblons:, 2^^-4 in. lonff, mostly rounded or cordate at base, acute or acumi- nate at apex, finely serrate with long pointed teetli, reddish and covered with white when unfold, at maturity g:labrous, dark green above, paler beneath, turnina: yellow in autumn ; petioles slender. FJowrrs, when the leaves are about grown, in erect or nodding glabrous racemes, ZVz-i in. long, with slender pedicels bearing each two silky deciduous bracts; calyx villous inside ; petals narrow obovate. Fruit sub- globose. 14-^/^ in. in diameter, dark purple, glaucous.^ 1. Syn. .1. Botryoiyium (L. f.) deC. 2. A. W., HI, 59. 3. For genus see pp. Please note that
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