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prairie. Of course he took considerable pains, as he was an ex- 

 cellent horticulturist and was very successful in the experiment. 



Mr. Underwood. We have no trouble in orrowing them but 

 in the garden they appear to be shy of bearing. But the birds 

 are so numerous that it may account for that. They blossom 

 profusely. 



Prof. Green. Do you transplant in the fall or spring"? 



Mr. Underwood. We have never paid any particular attention 

 to that. Usually we set the plants in the spring of,the year. I 

 don't imagine they are difficult to transplant. 



Mr. Smith. I filled an order for the plants from Dakota and 

 they seemed to bear transplanting well enough. I had a few left 

 and I set them in a trench and they all lived. 



Mrs. Stager. I set out a few plants two years ago this last 

 spring, and they grew nicely. Last spring they were full of 

 blossoms but they produced no berries. I thought perhaps they 

 needed to be shaded, and so I have dug them up 



Col. Stevens. The blueberry is very much like the whortle 

 berry. 



Mr. Sias. The blueberry grows wild in Olmsted county, and 

 I got an impression that they transplanted easily. I ran across 

 a patch of about an acre and took up a few plants, and they all 

 grew. I set on a clay loam soil, and as long as I took care of 

 them the continued to bear. 



Mr. Pearse. I have a good deal of experience in transplant- 

 ing shade and forest trees, and find if dug late in the fall and 

 buried, there is no trouble about their growing. If trees are dug 

 in the spring and set out the borers are apt to destroy them, and 

 the trees become diseased. 



Col. Stevens. It is not a tree, it is a shrub. 



Mr. Pearse. I know what it is. It is so with all roots; it has 

 the same effect with a cottonwood or box elder. The best time 

 to dig them is in the fall. 



Mr. Ridout. I would like to inquire whether this is the high 

 or the low bush huckleberry; there are two varieties, I under- 

 stand. The low bush used to grow in Michigan on high, dry 

 ground, while the other kind always grew in swamps. 



Mr. Smith. I presume it is the low bush Col. Stevens re- 

 fers to. 



Mr. Harris. I have never heard of any high bush huckleber- 

 ries or blueberries growing here. 



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