VACCIN'IUM FUSCATUM. 
RED-TWIGGED WHORTLE-BERRY. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
tntroduced 
N. America 
2 feet. 
May 8c June 
Shrub 
in 1770. 
No. 945. 
Vaccinium, perhaps from bacciniiim, signifying 
berry-bearing — producing baccae, or berries. 
This, with many other Vacciniums, are highly 
desirable plants for the shrubbery and flower gar- 
den; not alone for their flowers, or character as 
shrubs, but for their fruit also, many of which pro - 
duce subacid berries which would be useful in 
domestic economy. It is questionable, however, 
whether they really excel our black and red cur- 
rants ; but they would at the least produce variety, 
which is always agreeable; and as palates vary 
they would meet with admirers. It would be a 
praiseworthy effort in any nobleman to increase 
our knowledge of exotic fruits by devoting a portion 
of his garden expressly to their culture. 
North America is the native nursery of nearly 
all the Vacciniums, whence more than forty species 
have been imported to this country, at various 
times, since the year 1760; and it is believed that 
many others will still be found in that inexhaus- 
tible expanse of vegetable riches. 
This species should be planted in sandy peat, 
and increased by layers. Its fruit is austere. 
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