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Gaylussacia and Vaccinium. The HUCKLEBERRIES and BLUEBERRIES 

 arc wild plants rarely brought into cultivation even for fruiting purposes, 

 and thus scarcely need a place in this book. Still there are a few 

 species which have beautiful flowers, foliage, and fruit and belong 

 to the very limited group which thrive in shady places. 



HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY Vaccinium atrococcum (V. corymbbsum) 

 is a tall straggling shrub -4 to 12 feet with yellowish green warty branches, 

 alternate usually entire leaves, white or pinkish tubular flowers in clusters 

 mi short leafless twigs, May, June, and abundant many-seeded blue-black 

 berries, July, August. 



DEERBERRY or BUCKBERRY Vaccinium stamineum is a spreading 

 branched shrub 2 to 5 feet with entire-edged pale leaves and abundant green- 

 ish white bell-shaped nodding flowers with projecting stamens, April to 

 June. The large greenish or yellowish berries (\ inch) are hardly edible. 



[Seeds, with difficulty; divisions.] 



FIG. 408. Deerberry. 



FIG. 409. Farkleberry. 



