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purple Heather and Ling, the Mount Ida or 

 Whortleberry ; Cranberry, Bearberry, Crow- 

 berry, and Juniper ; and the Sweet-gale or 

 Candleberry. Then there are the Cloudberry, 

 Dewberry, the low-growing brambles, and a 

 host of others. Of these one of the best 

 known is the Bilberry, with its rosy waxen 

 flowers, fresh green foliage, and its prettily 

 bloomed globes in autumn. The wiry shrub 

 which bears this fruit ascends to over three 

 thousand feet, and lower on the slopes various 

 of the game-birds are fond of it. A fruit like 

 the last is the Bog-whortleberry, which also has 

 a glaucous bloom, though it is larger than the 

 last. 



Perhaps the prettiest of this group is the 

 Mount Ida or Whortleberry — pale pink and 

 coral at first, then scarlet as the season advances. 

 But the best known of all is the Cranberry, so 

 much of the rose-coloured fruit of which is 

 brought from northern bogs and heaths to 

 southern markets. The Crowberry has shining 

 black fruit, and, like so many of the species 

 named, is sought after by moorfowl. The Cloud- 

 berry is one of the low-growing brambles, as is 

 the Dewberry. The gray-green Juniper bushes 



