346 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Vaccinium Arctostaphylos, Linne. 



On Mount Olympus. The leaves, dried and slightly heated, furnish 

 the Broussa tea, the material for a very palatable beverage (G. 

 Maw). 



Vaccinium tricolor, F. v. Mueller. (Thibaudia bicolor, Ruiz and 

 Pavon.) 



Cold zones of the Peruvian Andes. A high evergreen bush, with 

 red berries of the size of a hazel-nut. All Thibaudias seem best to 

 form a section in the genus Vaccinium, some species of the latter 

 for instance, Vaccinium Imrayi (Hook.), from Dominica medi- 

 ating the transit. The species of the section Thibaudia, as a 

 rule, produce red berries of acidulous grateful taste. Many others 

 may therefore deserve culture in forest ravines or on Alpine heights. 

 They occur from Peru to Mexico, also in West India. One species, 

 Vaccinium melliflorum (Thibaudia melliflora, R. and P.), has its 

 flowers rich in honey-nectar. 



Vaccinium caespitosum, Michaux. 



Canada and Northern States of North America. A deciduous- 

 leaved small bush, with bluish edible berries. V. ovalifolium 

 (Smith) is an allied species. 



Vaccinium Canadense, Kalm.* 



From the Middle States of North America northwards. A dwarf 

 shrub in swampy ground of wood-lands. Yields, like V. Pennsyl- 

 vanicum, to which it is allied, edible Blueberries or Huckleberries. 

 Mr. Marity calls the berries delicious, fetching a high price, up to 

 1 1 dollars a bushel, never lower than 5 dollars, in New York. One 

 bush yields from a pint to a quart of berries. It thrives through 

 all grades of soil and exposure. The berries are rather large and 

 aromatic ; for cooking and preserves they take precedence to any 

 other kind of fruit. They are easily dried, and retain then their 

 full delicious flavour. The bush grows occasionally to a height of 

 15 feet. 



Vaccinium corymbosum, Linne.* 



The Swamp Blueberry or Blue Huckleberry. Canada and United 

 States of North America. A good-sized shrub up to 15 feet high 

 with deciduous foliage. Berries bluish black, rather large, aromatic, 

 of sweetish taste, ripening late in the season. 



Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Michaux. (Oxycoccus erectus, Pursh.) 



Carolina and Virginia, on high mountains. An upright bush of a 

 few feet in height, with deciduous leaves. The transparent scarlet 

 berries, according to PursX are of excellent taste. 



