SUCCESS WITH HUCKLEBERRIES 495 



formed before winter, and if well mulched, they are ready for a 

 strong start in spring. 



Others prefer to remove the plants in spring. A. S. Fuller 

 states* that there is no risk in moving plants from high ground 

 with a ball of earth attached, early in spring, and that not a plant 

 had failed out of many hundreds so handled. Joseph Meehan also 

 reports success! in transplanting them from the woods in spring, 

 by cutting back one -half. Nearly all the plants bore fruit the 

 following year. Mr. Fuller was a firm friend of the huckleberry, 

 and greatly lamented the neglect which it has suffered. In his 

 work on small fruits, and in various other places, he urged the 

 importance of bringing it into more common cultivation. He 

 states that with ordinary care a plantation will last a lifetime. 



Although so little known in cultivation, enough instances of 

 success with the high-bush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, are 

 'on record that it seems perfectly safe to recommend it. In an 

 article in American Garden, Vol. XIII, p. 287, Jackson Dawson 

 says: "A number of growers in Massachusetts are becoming 

 interested in the cultivation of this plant, and are on the lookout 

 for large varieties, so we may soon expect to see blueberries as 

 large as cherries. Mr. Huntington, of Lynn, has now more than 

 a dozen well-marked varieties of good size, some being one -half 

 to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Mr. Hervey, of Hing- 

 ham, Mass., has also been growing blueberries as garden fruits for 

 several years. He considers them a success, and would not be 

 without them for twice their cost. Benjamin Smith, of Cambridge, 

 secretary of the Pomological Society, has grown them a number of 

 years, and says a few bushes give his family plenty of berries dur- 

 ing the season. From a small row transplanted last spring, my 

 boys gathered 8 to 10 quarts of fruit during the summer." 



The following letter written to the Geneva (N. Y.) Experiment 

 Station! by W. J. Scott, of Bridgewater, Oneida county, N. Y., 

 gives another instance of success. He says: "About fifteen years 

 ago I planted a quantity of huckleberry bushes on my farm, tak- 



*Ainer. Garden, 1888:186. 

 tPopular Gardening 6:41. 

 {Ann. Kept. 1883:287. 



