BOX HUCKLEBERRY (Continued) 



greatest development, it is known as "juniper." Although the berries 

 are rather 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 arisen 

 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 grown in a greenhouse of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture in Washington. 



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