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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



Gaylussacia and Vaccinium. The Hlckleberries and Blueberries 

 are wild plants rarely brought into cultivation even for fruiting purposes, 

 and thus scarcely need a place in this book. Still there are a few 

 species which have beautiful flowers, foliage, and fruit and belong 

 to the very limited group which thrive in shady places. 



High-bush Blueberry — Vaccinium atrococcum (V. corymbbsum) — 

 is a tall straggling shrub 4 to 12 feet with yellowish green warty branches, 

 alternate usually entire leaves, white or pinkish tubular flowers in clusters 

 on short leafless twigs. May, June, and abundant many-seeded blue-black 

 berries, July, August. 



Deerberry or Buckberry — Vaccinium stamlneum — is a spreading 

 branched shrub 2 to 5 feet with entire-edged pale leaves and abundant green- 

 ish white bell-shaped nodding flowers with projecting stamens, April to 

 June. The large greenish or yellowish berries (J inch) are hardly edible. 



[Seeds, with difficulty ; divisions.] 



Fig. 408. — Deerberry. 



Fig. 409. — Farkleberry. 



