38 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
This is their poetical and their botanical name, the one 
that is associated with all the beautiful things that clus- 
ter in the same field. These fruits are also gathered for 
the market, and exposed for sale with cucumbers, new 
potatoes, and squashes. They are now Huckleberries. 
. . . We should say Whortleberries if we are writing an 
essay or a poem about them, and Huckleberries if we 
are going to buy a few of them in the market. The 
usages of the market in other matters ought to be ex- 
cluded from literature. In commerce, for example, 
fishes are fish; in natural history fish are fishes.” In 
this case, so far as my experience goes, the usage of 
the market bids fair to triumph, just as in coinage the 
cheaper metal tends to drive the more valuable one out 
of circulation. The dangleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa, 
Torr. and Gray), our only other species of this genus, 
is not so abundant as the preceding, and is, conse- 
quently, not so well known. 
Four species of blueberry are found in our county, 
the dwarf (Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam.), the low 
(V. vacillans, Solander), the common (V. corymbosum, 
L.) with its variety, and the northern (V. Canadense, 
Kalm). The low and the common blueberries are 
rivals, in popular favor, of the huckleberries. These 
shrubs are pleasant to the eye, both when covered with 
bloom and when laden with fruit. 
