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early in the season, followed by a mulching of sawdust. 

 But this is only in an amateur way; yet recent experiments 

 show that seedling production and selection may give 

 varieties that will grow on moist sandy land wherever the 

 blueberry will thrive and bear fruit under cultivation. 

 The seeds should be treated the same as those of its near 

 relative, the huckleberry (277). 



