MAY AND JUNE. 



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Vaccimum 



maerocarpon. 



in diameter.* The leaves hold their olive-green color 

 all winter. The time of flowering is early summer. 

 Cranberry, Large. The large cranberry grows in boggy 

 places from New Jersey to Maine, 

 and may be found in bloom in early 

 summer. The berry is ripe 

 in early autumn ; the finest 

 one is dark red in color, and 

 comes from the boggy districts 

 of Cape Cod. Nantucket also 

 has its cranberry bogs, and the 

 season of picking is quite an 

 important event for the island- 

 ers. The plant is small, the 

 wiry stems usually reaching a 

 length of about eight or nine 

 inches ; but sometimes they 

 develop a length of two feet 

 or more. It is curious to find 

 that such totally different-look- 

 ing plants as the rhododen- 

 dron and the cranberry are 

 relatives ; they belong to the 



Heath family. Cranbeny. 



* The cultivated varieties (hybrids), arise generally from R. 

 Catawbiense, B. Ponticum, and the tender B. arbor eum of the 

 Himalayas. 



