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Of Renewal and Sad Tidings, The Amelanchier


© Wesley Ford
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Mar 30, 2001


Service Berry Wine recipe may put a little spirit into your services.

I think I like the sound of shadblow, the best. But the romance and poetry of service berry catches my imagination. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if the shad had ever run all the way to the Appalachian Mountains? Then we may have had the meeting of two weather hardened cultures, the waterman and the mountain man. Imagine how they might have gathered in the midst of a grove of Amelanchier some where between the mountain and the sea and planked shad and sipped serviceberry wine together. Imagine the tales they would have spun to each other as they celebrated renewal and shared sorrows- at once a fete' and a wake. Imagine.......an Amelanchier in your garden.

A truely comprehensive Amelanchier site can be found at the University of Satkatchawan

More on Amelanchier from Michigan State Univ. Ornamental Plants Plus page.

Amelanchier Disease Problems

Amelanchier Insect problems

From Ohio State comes Ohio Trees, Amelanchier

See what Iowa State has to say about Amelanchier.

And from The Year in Trees at JC Raulston Arboretum, North Carolina State University, Serviceberry, Clusters of Pearls in the Landscape

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3.   May 27, 2001 6:35 PM
The Serviceberry that grows on seaside cliffs here smells quite awful, of feet, or parmesan cheese, if you go up to it and take a deep whiff. It's not really strong and you probably wouldn't notice un ...

-- posted by Jojo
2.   May 24, 2001 9:11 PM
A reader wrote me to ask the fllowing Question:


Have you ever heard of pronounced fragrance in Amelanchier?

My Response:

I did a little digging in Dirr and the only reference he makes t ...

-- posted by Treeman
1.   Apr 3, 2001 9:07 PM
That was so interesting, In Australia, the Amelanchier is not very well known. There was a tree in the garden of our town house when we bought many years ago. I did not know what it was but strang ...

-- posted by Gay_Klok



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