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soil, and will continue to thrive and fruit. Being so variable ID 

 the wild state, it offers the best of opportunities for improvement 

 and selection. Jackson Dawson says: "I chanced upon a bush 

 in East Foxboro last summer which was 12 feet high, loaded with 

 berries of a beautiful blue, rich, juicy, and half an inch in 

 diameter, while some were even larger. In this swamp ten or 

 twelve good forms of fruit might have been found, and by care- 

 ful selection and hybridization there is no reason why the High 

 Bush Blueberry should not become an excellent and abundant 

 fruit, as it is more easily cultivated than any of the others." It 

 is said not to get wormy, like the Black Huckleberry. 



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The Juneberry has received but little attention in cultivation, 

 though not from any difficulty in growing it, as with the huckle- 

 berry. The greatest impetus to its culture came with the intro- 

 duction of the variety known as Success. This was brought to 

 notice by H. E. Van Deman, then chief of the Division of Pomol- 

 ogy of the United States Department of Agriculture. It was 

 found by him in Kansas,! having been brought from Illinois, 

 where it had been grown from seeds gathered in the mountains 

 of Pennsylvania. Mr. Van Deman gave it the name Success, and 

 began selling plants about 1878. Some ten years later the stock 

 was sold to J. T. Lovett, of New Jersey. 



The Juneberry has often been confused with the huckleberry 

 in parts of the West. It was grown for a number of years by 

 Dr. James Hall, of Davenport, Iowa, who, under the name huckle- 

 berry, recommended its extensive planting as especially adapted 

 to that region. On the strength of these recommendations many 

 wild blueberry plants are said to have been sold throughout the 

 state, much to the dissatisfaction of the purchasers. The true 

 huckleberries or blueberries have never succeeded in this region, 

 and only those who were deceived, and got the Juneberry instead, 

 obtained any real value for their investment. On the strength of 

 these misrepresentations, the Iowa State Horticultural Society 

 passed resolutions of censure, cautioning all persons against buy- 



*Garden and Forest, 1:184. 



t Annals of Horticulture, Bailey, 1891:51. 



