HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF TlIF, GENUS VACCINIUM. 



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Albino forms of certain species — as V. Myrtillus — were early 

 observed. Dodoens, in 1578, mentions "some that beare white 

 Berries when they be rype, howbeit they are but seldome seen." 1 

 White fruits are catalogued by Ruppius in Flora Jenensis in 

 1726, and were found by Gmelin in Siberia in 1768. 2 In 1854, 

 John Booth of Floetbeck nursery, near Hamburg, Germany, 

 offered for sale plants of a white fruited form of V. Myrtillus 

 which had been obtained from the Black Forest. 3 A white 

 fruited form of Vitis-Idcca is also noted as occurring at Lyng- 

 dalen in the province of Christiansand in 1761. 4 



V. PENNSYLVANICUM, ALBINO. 



White fruited forms of Pcnnsylvanicum and corymbosum 

 have been observed by the writer ; white vacillans is reported in 



1 Lyte's Dodoens 670. 



2 Cited by Sturtevant, Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 1890, 25. 



3 Loudon, Alb. et Fruit. 2:1157. 

 *F1. Dan. 1:9. 



