HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY 
Vaccinium corymbosum Linnaeus 
Highbush blueberry is better known by its delicious fruit than by 
the beautiful flowers which ate so attractive in spring. These are 
borne thickly on the branches and attract many insects to their nectar 
feast. But it is when loaded with fruit that the plant’s principal 
claim to out interest is acknowledged. W hile the wild berry is attrac- 
tive, the improved varieties developed by Dr. Frederick V. Coville 
ate out admiration and delight. The berries of these cultivated forms 
have reached seven-eighths of an inch in diameter. Highbush blue- 
berries ate grown in acid soils, and as they ate very hardy, many waste 
places in our Northern States can be utilized to ptoduce a ctop of 
delicious fruit. 
Highbush blueberry ranges, in its numerous forms, from North 
Carolina (and perhaps farther southward) westward to the Missis- 
sippi Valley, and north to Minnesota and Maine. 
The specimen sketched was grown in the greenhouses of the 
Department of Agriculture in Washington from specimens obtained 
in New Jetsey. 
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