Our Native Fruits, p. 426]: This berry is the wonder of all the 
fruits growing naturally in those parts; it is of itself excellent, so 
that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say that 
God could have made, but never did, a better berry. . . . In some 
parts, where the natives have planted, I have many times seen as 
many as would fill a good ship within a few miles’ compasse. The 
Indians bruise them in a mottar and mixe them with meale and 
make Strawberry bread.” 
There was great abundance and variety of whortleberries and 
and “* blueber- 

bilberries, better known to us as “ huckleberries ” 
ries,” which contrasted with the small sour species of Europe, such 
as the Bog Bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), found in New York 
on the summits of the Adirondack Mountains. 
These names persisted until fairly late; thus Mather and Brock- 
ett write in 1847 (lc. p. 35), “ The earliest in the markets 1s the 
dwarf blue Whortleberry (V. Pennsylvanicum), growing in sandy 
woods, and on hill sides and summits of the mountains. The Bil- 
corymbosum) is frequent in swamps and wet shady 

berry (V 
woods. The agreeable acid Cranberry, an almost indispensable 
article of food, is the fruit of two species of Vaccinium (7. Ovy- 
coccus and VV. macrocarpon). The former abounds in the north- 
ern and western parts of the state, and the latter, which is the com- 
mon American cranberry seen in the market, is most frequent in 
the south.” 
The term “huckleberry,” a corruption of 
now rigorously applied in parts of New LIEngland to Gaylussacia 
baccata, a resinous-fruited species of dry barrens, having ten large 
stony seeds, whereas the “ blueberries ” (Maccimtum species) have 
many small seeds. In states to the westward no distinction 1s 
“whortleberry,” is 
ordinarily made, all species being called “ huckleberries.’ 
Of the species native to Long Island, by far the most important 
verry (I. corymbosum), forming bushes 
is the High-bush Blue 
four to eight feet high, a species now extensively cultivated in 
southern New Jersey. Undoubtedly next in importance on Long 
Island is the Late Low Blueberry (lV. vacillans), alow shrub with 
yellowish-green branches and exceedingly sweet berries covered 
with a light bluish bloom. A third species, more common north- 

ward, 1S the Low Blueberry ae pennsylt anicuse), which consti- 
