412 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



(Fig. 107), and D. Brandt, Bremen, Ohio. The stock 

 introduced by the Fords was not named. Mr. Ford 

 writes that he 'did not . propagate it for sale, but dug 

 the roots from clumps that produced large fruit. We 

 sold very few plants, and shall not catalogue it again 

 until we can propagate stock from a few plants which 

 I know, and which produce berries nearly one-fourth 

 inch in diameter.' The stock introduced by Brandt 

 was called the Brain ard. It was first discovered 

 in a thicket, in Fairfield county, Ohio, by G. W. 

 Brainard."* 



High -bush Cranberry (Viburnum Opulus) 



The plant which, in the Old World, has given rise 

 to the garden snowball, also produces very acceptable 

 acid red berries. The plant is native to this country, 

 also, and in northern New England and other parts of 

 the northern states and Canada, the fruits are much 

 esteemed for sauces. The plant has been introduced to 

 the trade as a fruit-plant, but no varieties have re- 

 ceived names. Fig. 108 is a picture of a cluster of 

 fruit from a plant bought from a nurseryman as high- 

 bush cranberry. 



The high -bush cranberry is variable in a wild state, 

 and it is also so unlike the European plant that bota- 

 nists have long been divided as to whether it should 

 not receive a separate name. For myself, I believe 

 that the plants of the two continents should be re- 

 garded as distinct species ; and in that case Philip 

 Miller's Viburnum Americanum (1768) should be the 

 name of the American plant. Michaux (1803) threw 



*Annals Hort. 1891, 52. 



