These days, Amelanchier fruit are transformed into preserves, tarts and pies; Euell Gibbons wrote about enjoying juneberry muffins and pie in “Stalking the Wild Asparagus.”

Amelanchier.—These should be pruned after the flowers are past, the removal of badly-placed and weakly shoots being all that is required.

Lucien informed his companions, while they were crushing its sweet purplish fruit between their teeth, that its botanical name is Amelanchier.