5' (feet)	................	$   70.00
6' (feet)	................	$   88.00
7' to 8' (feet)	................	$ 120.00
8' (feet)	................	$ 130.00
9' to 10' (feet)	................	$ 160.00
10' to 12' (feet)	................	$ 180.00

Scientific Classification Kingdom...: Plantae Division...: Magnoliophyta Class...: Magnoliopsida Order...: Rosales Family...: Rosaceae Subfamily...: Maloideae Genus...: Amelanchier Species...: several in stock (please call or write for full list) Variety...: Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry Coles Select Serviceberry Shadblow Serviceberry

The Serviceberry is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, growing primarily in early successional habitats. It is most diverse taxomically in North America, especially in the northern United States and southern Canada, and is native to every state of the United States except Hawaii. 

Amelanchier species grow to 40 to 65 feet tall, arborecent or suckering and forming loose colonies or dense clumps to single-stemmed. The bark is gray or less often brown, smooth or fissuring in older trees. The leaves are deciduous, cauline, alternate, simple, lanceolate to elliptic to orbiculate, with surfaces abaxially glabrous or densely tomentose at flowering, abaxially glabrous or more or less hairy at maturity. 

The inflorescences are terminal, with 1 to 20 flowers, erect or drooping, either in clusters of one to four flowers, or in racemes with 4 to 20 flowers. The flowers have five white (rarely somewhat pink, yellow, or streaked with red), linear to orbiculate petals, 1/10th to 1 inch long, occasionally andropetalous (bearing apical microsporangia adaxially; only known in this genus in A. nantucketensis). 

The flowers appear in early spring, "when the shad run" according to tradition (leading to names such as "shadbush"). The fruit is a berry-like pome, red to purple to nearly black at maturity, 1/5th to 2/3rds of an inch diameter, insipid to delectably sweet, maturing in summer.

The fruit of several species are excellent to eat raw, tasting like a slightly nutty blueberry, though their popularity with birds makes harvesting difficult. Fruit is harvested locally for pies and jams. The saskatoon berry is harvested commercially. The Native American food pemmican was flavored by shadbush fruits in combination with fat and dried meats, and the stems were made into arrow shafts.

Several species are very popular ornamental shrubs, grown for their flowers, bark, and fall color. All need similar conditions to grow well, requiring good drainage, air circulation (to discourage leaf diseases), watering during drought and acceptable soil. Note that species names are often used interchangeably in the nursery trade. Many A. arborea plants that are offered for sale are actually hybrids, or entirely different species.

The wood is brown, hard, close-grained, and heavy. The heartwood is reddish-brown, and the sapwood is lighter in color. It can be used for tool handles and fishing rods.

George Washington planted specimens on the grounds of Mount Vernon.