Bui. 974, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XXVI. 



Handsome Cluster of Blueberries from a Rejected Hybrid. 



Among the thousands of hybrids fruited at Whitesbog, N. J., hundreds produce berries as 

 large and as handsome as these, yet although they are superior to all wild berries except 

 the very best they are not regarded as of sufficiently high quality to merit selection and 

 propagation when judged from the high standard set for hybrid blueberries. However, 

 from tmselected hybrid bushes of this class a yield of berries was obtained in 1919 at the 

 rate of 96 bushels per acre. They sold at a little over $10 a bushel, bringing gross receipts 

 at the rate of S966 per acre. In 1920 this planting yielded at the rate of 117 bushels per 

 acre, which sold at a little less than $11 a bushel, yielding gross receipts at the rate of 

 $1,280 per acre. 



