SERVICE BERRY; SHAD BURR; JUNE BERRY (Amelanchier Canadensis, T & G.). 15 to 40 feet. Slender, round-topped or pyramidal tree with twigs at first silky. Bark purplish, or red-brown, furrowed into squarish plates. Wood heavy, very hard, close, dark, used for tool-handles and fuel. Leaves oval or oblong, serrate, tapering, smooth, 3 to 4 inches long, mid ribs grooved above; petioles slender; autumn color yellow.
Flowers in April, before leaves, white, in loose, drooping racemes, with silky, red bracts and five narrow petals spread ing 1 inch. Fruit a flattened, red berry, juicy, sweet, with 10-celled core containing seeds. Ripe in early summer. Dist.: Newfoundland to Dakota; south to the Gulf of Mexico. Cultivated as an ornamental nark and lawn tree, and for birds.