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THE WOODLAND EOAD — SHEUBS AND FLOWEES BELONG- 

 ING TO THE HEATH FAMILY. 



Some of the most beautiful sliriibs and herbs 

 which grow beside the woodland road are members 

 of the Heath family {Ericacece), and many of them — 

 the huckleberry, trailing 

 arbutus, mountain laurel, 

 and Indian pipe, for in- 

 stance — are common 

 throughout the hilly re- 

 gions of Pennsylvania, 

 ISTew Jersey, New York, 

 and New England. 



As summer advances 

 we will find on the way- 

 sides of the climbing hills 

 the dwarf blueberry ( Yaccinium Pennsylvanicurn), 

 with its beautiful cadet-blue berries, sweet as honey, 

 clustered at the tips of bushes scarcely ten inches 



high. The miniature leaves are variously colored 



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Dwarf Blueberry. 



