THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 7 



more than his share, can have no quarrel with Fate even if 

 November davs are dark and drear. 



CULTIVATED BLUEBERRIES 



By H. E. Zimmerman. 



AS a result of the experiments of the Department of Agri- 

 culture with blueberries, sometimes called huckleberries, 

 or whortleberries, it is quite probable that they will eventually 

 be cultivated in the United States as extesively and as profit- 

 ably as cranberries are cultivated now. Already there are 

 blueberry plantations so successful, that their owners plan to 

 enlarge them. One in Indiana was started in 1889, in a 

 natural blueberry bog that was first drained and then set with 

 wild blueberry bushes, without selection for individual produc- 

 tiveness or size of berries. On that plantation, the average 



