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growing on the rocky hillside, or on the border of 

 the wooded swamp. It does not occur in the White 

 Mountains, where the dwarf blueberry is very com- 

 mon, but it is plentiful in various parts of New Jer- 

 sey, on the island of Nantucket, Lake George. 

 N. Y., and in Putnam County, 

 N. Y. ; it is widely distributed 

 from Maine to northern Georgia. 



The squaw huckleberry ( V. 

 stamineum), sometimes called 

 deerberry, is a* rugged shrub 

 two to three feet high, very 

 much branched, bearing large, 

 greenish or yellowish, globular or 

 pear - shaped, hanging berries, 

 which are insipid and not edible ; 

 they ripen in September. 



The flowers of all these shrubs 

 are vase-shaped and five-cleft at 

 the edge, usually of a whitish, pinkish, or magentaish 

 hue, and they appear in spring or early summer. 

 The common cranberry of our markets ( Vaccinium 

 macrocarpori) is found in the peat bogs of the North- 

 ern States, and flowers in June. 



The beautiful miniature, creeping snowberry 

 (Chiogenes serpyllifolia) belongs in the peat bogs and 

 mossy woods of the North, but it very frequently 



Squaw Huckleberry. 



