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A Shadblow By Any Name Is Beauty

SHADBLOW BUSHES add to beauty of Victorian Mall in Cape Mall.

photo by Dorlt Ward

4 JUNi. 16 >98?

By. R. Leslie Chrismer CAPE MAY — The twenty-one small /and large shrubs which, late in April graced the Cape May City Mall with their loose racemes of dainty white blossoms on (at first) leafless branches, were Shadblows, or Shadbushes, or Juneberries, or Serviceberries. There is no more attractive bush or tree in all America. There are many species of its genus, which is Amelanchier, and they grow in the north and south, and to the midwest, in wet places and dry, in meadows and on mountain sides, and in size from small shrubs to tall trees. (One in Maine is known as the wild lear)., Edward Steichen, one of the nation's most famous photographers, spentflnuch of his late life photographing their beauty in all seasons; the lacey white flowers of early Spring (before a single green leaf appears); the purplishred berries in June (which both bird and human can enjoy); the finely-tooted yellow, russet, and garnet leaves in fall; and the delicately-lined, distinctly-gray bark in winter. THERE ARE good reasons for the various common names. The shrub or tree blooms when shad are beginning their spawning run up local rivers. Its berry ripens in June. The Indians, who used it as food in several ways, introduced it to the white settlers who called it Serviceberry, since it was of service to them. (SARviceberry is how the colonists commonly pronounced it). But some say it got the name Serviceberry for another reason.

Its flowers appeared about the time ministers made their first trips of the year, on horseback, to members of their congregation, who had been isolated all winter long in their wilderness homes, far from the settlements, on roads that for months had been impassable ruts. It was then that the clergy were able to perform for such pioneers the first religious services of the new year: marriages, baptisms, memorials. The shrubs and trees of the Amelancher order are members of the Rose family, as is the apple tree. The little berry of the Shadblow resembles a small rose hip. And, in cut half, it looks exactly like the inside of a tiny apple. R. Leslie Chrismer of Cape May is a retired pharmacist and former newspaperman

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