VINES AND SHRUBS 



Low Sweet Blueberry. Early Sweet Blueberry 



V, pennsyfoamcam. — Color, white or pinkish. Leaves, lance- 

 shape or oblong, with fine, small teeth, pointed at both ends, 

 small, downy on the veins underneath, smooth above. Corolla, 

 bell-shape, long, smaller at the mouth, with style slightly pro- 

 truding. Berries, a rather light blue, with a whitish bloom, 

 very sweet, found clustered on the ends of the branches. Branches 

 irregular and angular, smooth, with light green, white-dotted 

 bark. May and June. 



Our earliest and sweetest blueberry. A low, straggling 

 shrub, 6 to 20 inches high, found in dry, sterile soil, in woods, 

 fields, and barrens, from Newfoundland to Virginia and 

 westward. Berries ripe in June and July. 



Sour-top or Velvet-leaf Blueberry. Canada Blueberry 



V, canadense. — A species in which the berries ripen later than 

 the last, July and August. Leaves, elliptical or lance - shape, 

 downy on both sides. Flowers, few, in clusters or racemes on the 

 naked branches, small, on short pedicels. May and June. 



A low shrub, 6 to 20 inches high, found in moist woods or 

 swamps or dry fields from New England southward along 

 the mountains to Virginia. 



Late Low Blueberry 



V. c vaallans. — A shrub 10 to 36 inches high, with berries ripen- 

 ing late, July and August. Flowers and leaves much like the 

 preceding species. Berries with a bloom. Flowers, small, thick- 

 ly clustered, bell-shape. Often pinkish in color. 



Swamp Blueberry. Tall Blueberry. High Bush Blue- 

 berry 



V, corymbosum, — Color, white or with a pink tint. The finest 

 of the genus. Leaves, large, dark green, paler beneath, oval, 

 pointed, entire. Flowers and fruit, on short peduncles in close 

 clusters, borne on short branches which are the growth of the 

 previous year; 1 or 2 yellowish bracts at the base of each. 



Growing in swamps, 6 to 15 feet high, bearing great quan- 

 tities of fruit, often half a bushel on a single bush. Berries 

 mature in August. Less often found in dry thickets, when 

 the fruit is not so fine. North of Virginia, and westward. 



Storax 



Styrax grandifolia. — Family, Storax. Color, white. Leaves, 

 large, 2 to 6 inches long, smooth, dark green above, pale, softly 



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