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Hybrid Clucberry Plant in Bearing 



Adaptability Soils 



Cultivated blueberries are being successfully grown 

 from North Carolina to Maine, and in any section 

 where wild blueberries are found. The natural 

 blueberry soil has an abundance of humus, which 

 naturally runs acid. And with a high water level, 

 this type of soil must have a good surface drainage, 

 or the plants will become injured after heavy rain- 

 fall. This can be overcome by planting the plants 

 on wide ridges, 6-10 inches high. 



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BLUEBERRIES 



Mulching — Fertilisers — Yields 



Now to hold the moisture in the upper part of 

 soil, which is very important, to a blueberry plant- 

 ing. Is to apply, a heavy and permanent mulch 

 around the plants, and to widen this mulch out to 

 the middle of the rows as the plants get largV 

 each year. The standard commercial 5-10-12 fer- 

 tilizer, is being used successfully, at the rate df,^ 

 about 600 pounds per acre. This is the rate oi * 

 about one-half pound per plant. Cultivated blue- 

 berries are very productive, third vear plants should 

 produce 1900 pts., fourth year 2800 pts.. fifth year 

 and on 5,000 pts. per acre. 



Selective List New-Better Varieties Giant Blueberries 



• CABOT (Season Early) 



Cabot is an early variety, for many years the earliest of 

 the named varieties and has been planted very extensively 

 by blueberry growers. It is slightly acid, fruit of attractive 

 purple color, of an unusually large size. 



• RANCOCAS (Medium Early) 



Rancoca3 is a second-yearly variety, ripening its berries 

 later than Cabot and earlier than Pioneer. The original 

 bush bore berries up to 18 mm in diameter. Berries in 

 commercial plantations sometimes exceed 19 mm. Ran- 

 cocas tends to the production of heavy crops on young 

 and healthy bushes, so heavy indeed that unusual care 

 must be taken to prune the bushes severely in order to 

 insure a good crop in the following year. The leaves of 

 Rancocas have finely toothed margins. The berries have 

 a small, dry scar and are very easily picked. 



• CONCORD (Midseason) 



The Concord blueberry was so named because of its large 

 clusters of berries, which, all ripe at the same time, 

 resemble clusters of Concord grapes. Concord berries are 

 delicious when they are allowed to remain on the bush 

 until fully ripe and have lost the excessive acidity they 

 possess when they first turn blue. Concord is a mid-season 

 variety, ripening at about the same time as Pioneer. 



• PIONEER (Midseason) 



Pioneer was so designated because it was the first named 

 variety developed as a result of blueberry breeding. Its 

 berries are of light blue color, sweet, of excellent flavor, 

 and when fully ripe are without acidity. We recommend 

 Pioneer for a fine mid-season variety. 



• RUBEL (Large Mid-season Variety) 



This variety ripens about two weeks later than Cabot. 

 The bush is an upright grower, very vigorous, hardy and 

 productive. Fruit is medium large of a light blue, very 

 firm ; can be shipped long distance. Some of the largest 

 Blueberry plantings in New Jersey have a good proportion 

 of their plantings to this variety. The quality is consid- 

 ered to be fairly good, although somewhat acid. From the 

 standpoint of growth, yields and other characteristics this 

 variety can be classed almost ideal. 



• JERSEY (Season Late) 



The berries of Jersey are large to extra large and, until 

 dead ripe, too acid for the taste of most persons. It is 

 a good shipping berry and one which stands up well in 

 transit. It is considered by commercial growers to be one 

 of the leading late varieties. Jersey is of remarkably robust 

 growth and makes an attractive ornamental plant wh^ 

 grown in the home garden. 



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