13-4 THE CANADIAN HOETICULTUEIST. 



Centennial, of which he seems to l)e suddenly enamored, notwith- 

 standing the almost black color of the fruit, which is not usually a 

 desirable color in a market strawberry. 



THE HUCKLEBEERY. 



Horticultural papers are copying an article from the Weekly 

 Tribune written by a correspondent living in Maine, who states that he 

 has cultivated the Highbush Huckleberry ( VaGcinium Corymhosum) 

 for forty years with unvarying success. We believe they are doing a 

 good work in thus calling attention to this fruit. The present sources 

 of supply will give out after a time, and besides, why should we buy 

 fruit that has been bruized almost to a jam and become almost stale 

 "when we can have it fresh every day from our own gardens. The 

 " Canadian Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Gardener" sometime ago called 

 attention to this fruit, and urged upon horticulturists the raising of 

 new varieties from seed and establishing them in their gardens, but 

 until the appearance of this letter we were not aware that anyone had 

 done anything in this direction. This gentleman says that he has 

 found it the most profitable and reliable of any berry with which he 

 has experimented. Under culture the bush bears with great profusion, 

 while it is long lived, and too hardy to be injured by the cold of tlie 

 severest ]\Iaine winter. It does not require high culture nor very 

 rich soil, but needs to be planted where it can get the full blaze of 

 the sun. He has grown his plants by transplanting them from 

 wherever he found them growing wild, and has not made any experi- 

 ments with sowing the seed, yet he says that the seeds produce distinct 

 varieties, varying in size and flavor, and also varying in color from 

 black to almost white. 



Will not some of our readers take this matter in hand and experi- 

 ment with plants in the garden from the -wilds, and also in raising new 

 sorts from seed. It is a new and quite untrodden field, and on that 

 account one of much interest. The. berries can be crushed, mixed 

 with fine sand, sown on a well pulverized bed, and covered with fine 

 mold, where they will grow, and the plants remain the first year. The 

 next season the young plants should be set out in the open ground 

 where they are to grow and fruit. Doubtless the result would be a 

 decided improvement in the size and quality of this popular fruit 



