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V. corymbosum, pennsylvanicum, canadense, and vacillans. The first of 

 these is the "High Bush Blueberry" or "Huckleberry" of the middle 

 West. The shrub grows rapidly, is easily transplanted, and is the natural 

 starting point in attempts to add the " Blueberry " to the list of cultivated 

 fruits. During the last few years it has received considerable attention 

 as a garden fruit, especially in New England. 



Among the plants which lend tone to the landscape in October and 

 November by reason of their bright foliage many of the species of 

 Yacciniuvi may be included, the brilliant red crimson and orange colours 

 often persisting much longer than the bright-hued leaves of a majority of 

 other plants. Of the ornamental species none are more strikingly 

 beautiful late in the autumn than V. corymbosum : the bright scarlet and 

 crimson effects, rivalling the Sumach in brilliancy, are unsurpassed. As 

 an ornamental plant the species deserves a place in every garden. Other 

 species are also named, with notes as to their appearance, habits, and 

 value as ornamental plants. 



The following are recommended for ornamental planting : — V. corym- 

 bosum, beautiful in flower ; fruit attractive ; bright scarlet and crimson 

 effects in autumn, rivalling the Sumach. V. pennsylvanicum and V. 

 canadense, bright, but early dropping its foliage. V. stamineum, early 

 deciduous, but attractive in bloom, and all summer, by its graceful habit ; 

 thriving in any good garden soil, and suited for densely shaded situations. 

 V. hirsutum, like corymbosum in brilliancy. V. Vitis-Idcea and uliginosum, 

 effective as edging for shrubbery border, while Douglas characterises 

 V. ovatum as one of California's most beautiful hedge plants. 



Information is then given as to propagation and cultivation, in some 

 cases by cuttings and in others by seedlings. The progress of cultiva- 

 tion since 1868 indicated that the work has been taken up systematically, 

 and is still in progress. 



The extent to which the Blueberry industry has already attained is 

 notified by the fact that one person in 1887 states that he ships an 

 average of 1,000 bushels a year from his farm in New Hampshire. He 

 estimates that as many as 20,000 bushels are sent annually along one 

 branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. 



In S.-E. Maine there are about 150,000 acres known as the "Blue- 

 berry Barrens." About 40,000 acres of these barrens belong to Mr. 

 "William Freeman, of Cherryfield, who may be regarded as the pioneer in 

 the Blueberry industry of America. Then follow the details of Mr. 

 Freeman's methods of harvesting and marketing the fruit, and also of 

 packing and canning, as adopted in Maine. There were in 1900 seven 

 factories in Maine which engaged in canning Blueberries. The total 

 canned product of the Blueberry barrens in 1899 was about 50,000 cases, 

 valued at about £2.20 per case. 



In Michigan large quantities of fruit are shipped every year. 



The paper concludes with scientific botanical descriptions of all the 

 most important species, in many cases with figures illustrating the habit 

 of the species, and a copious catalogue of the monographs and current 

 literature on the subject. — M. C. C. 



Vegetables for Exhibition. By E. Beckett (Garden, Nos. 1580- 



