Apple Tree.
The common apple; introduced from Europe; a more or less frequent escape wherever extensively cultivated, like the pear showing a tendency in a wild state to reversion.
Amelanchier Canadensis, Medic.
Shadbush. June-berry.
Habitat and Range.—Dry, open woods, hillsides.
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Lake Superior.
New England,—throughout.
South to the Gulf of Mexico; west to Minnesota, Kansas, and Louisiana.
Habit.—Shrub or small tree, 10-25 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 6-10 inches, reaching sometimes a height of 40 feet and trunk diameter of 18 inches; head rather wide-spreading, slender-branched, open; conspicuous in early spring, while other trees are yet naked, by its profuse display of loose spreading clusters of white flowers, and the delicate tints of the silky opening foliage.
Bark.—Trunk and large branches greenish-gray, smooth; branchlets purplish-brown, smooth.