BOX HUCKLEBERRY (Contznued) 
greatest development, it is known as “juniper.” Although the berries 
ate tather insipid when eaten raw, they make delicious preserves. 
The range of the box huckleberry is from eastern Tennessee and 
probably northernmost North Carolina through the mountains of 
southern West Virginia and the western edge of Virginia. Isolated 
colonies, most if not all of them consisting of single plants, occur 
at two places in Pennsylvania, and one each on the Coastal Plain of 
Maryland and Delaware. These outlying plants have probably atisen 
from seeds carried by birds from the mountain colonies, a few hun- 
dred miles away. The New Bloomfield plant is estimated to be more 
than a thousand years old, and one of those near Losh Run, Penn- 
sylvania, five to ten thousand years old. 
The specimen figured was gtown in a greenhouse of the United 
States Department of Agriculture in Washington. 
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