VINES AND SHRUBS 



Low Sweet Blueberry. Early Sweet Blueberry 

 V. Pennsylvania: m. Color, white or pinkish. Leaves, Lance- 

 shape or oblong, with fine, small teeth, pointed .it both i 

 small, downy <>n the veins underneath, smooth ab >>>lla, 



bell-shape, long, smaller at the mouth, with style slightly pro- 

 truding. Berries, a rather Lighl blue, with a whitish bloom, 

 very sweet, found clustered on the ends of the branches. Brat 

 irregular and angular, smooth, with lighl green, white-dotted 

 bark. May and June. 



Our earliest and sweetest blueberry. A low, straggling 

 shrub, 6 to 20 inches high, found in dry, sterile soil, in woods, 

 fields, and barrens, from Newfoundland to Virginia and 

 westward. Berries ripe in June and July. 



Sour-top or Velvet-le^.f Blueberry. Canada Blueberry 



V. canadense. — A species in which the berries ripen later than 



the last, July and August. Leaves, elliptical or Lance-shape, 



downy on both sides. Flowers, few, in clusters or racemes on the 



naked branches, small, on short pedicels. May and June. 



A low shrub, 6 to 20 inches high, found in moisl woods or 



swamps or dry fields from New England southward along 

 the mountains to Virginia. 



Late Low Blueberry 



V, <vacttlans. — A shrub 10 to 36 inches high, with berries ripen- 

 ing late, July and August. Flowers and leaves much like t In- 

 preceding species. Berries with a bloom. Flowers, small, thick- 

 ly clustered, bell-shape. Often pinkish in color. 



Swamp Blueberry. Tall Blueberry. High Bush Blue- 

 berry 



V. corymbosum. — Color, white or with a pink tint. The finest 

 of the genus. Leaves, large, dark i^vm paler beneath, oval, 

 pointed, entire. Flowers and fruit, on short peduncles in I 

 clusters, borne on short branches which are the growth of the 

 previous year; 1 or 2 yellowish bracts at the base of each. 



Growing in swamps, 6 to 15 feet high, bearing great quan- 

 tities of fruit, often half a bushel on a single bush. Berries 

 mature in August. Less often found m dry thickets, when 

 the fruit is not so fine. North of Virginia, and westward 



Storax 

 Styrax grandifblia. — Family, Storax. Color, white. 

 large, 2 to inches long, smooth, dark green above, pale, softly 



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