June, 1945 Circular 457 
Blueberries im the Garden 
CHARLES S. BECKwitTH*, Formerly Chief, Cranberry and Blueberry Research 
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ORDER 
FARMERS BULLETIN No. 1951 
U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Season Size of berry | Dessert Color (light | Shipping | Cold resist- | Bush shape 









Rank} (early to (large to eae to dark aaa ance (hardy (erect to 
late) small) poorer) blue) tees to tenderer) | spreading) 
Rae AWevinoutht Dixi. Stanley. Stanley. Jersey. Wareham. Rubel. 
2_..../June. Atlantic. Wareham. Jersey. Burlington. | Jersey. Rancocas. 
3_...|NCabot. Pemberton. | Pioneer. Concord. {| Rancocas. Stanley. June. 
4____|sRancocas. Scammell. Dixi. Atlantic. Atlantic. June. Scammell. 
5a tanley. Jersey. Atlantic. - Rubel. Rubel. Scamme 1. Pemberton. 
6__.._Concord. Weymouth. | Concord. Burlington. | Wareham. Rubel. Stanley. 
7_... Pioneer. Concord. Burlington. | Cabot Scammell. Rancocas. Jersey. 
8_...-Scammell.! | Stanley. Pemberton. | Rancocas. Pioneer. Cabot. Concord. 
Dreee Oe Wareham. Scammell. Dixi. June. Concord. | Wareham. 
10... NAtlantic. Pioneer. Rancocas. Pioneer. Stanley. Pioneer. | Burlington. 
11.__.|\Pemberton. | June. Rubel. Scammell. | Pemberton. (2) Dixi. 
i Pook. \Rubel. Burlington. | Jersey. June. Cabot. (7) Weymouth. 
13_._ Jersey. Rancocas. June. Pemberton. | Concord. (2) Atlantic. 
14___P"*Wareham. Cabot. Weymouth. | Weymouth. (2) : (2) Pioneer. 
15___}\Burlington. | Rubel. Cabot. Wareham. | (2) (2) Cabot. 
The success of commercial growers of the cultivated blueberry over a 
wide area in northern United States has aroused much interest in this plant 
both for garden and landscape use. Its peculiar soil requirements discourage 
general field planting. for there is little chance of successful commercial 
crops with the usual type of agricultural soil. By furnishing satisfactory con- 
ditions, however, an interested gardener may grow a plot of fruitful plants 
First printing May, 1943. Slightly revised June, 1945, by Charles A. Doehlert, associate 
research specialist in cranberry and blueberry culture, and J. Harold Clark, research 
specialist in pomology. 
* Deceased May 18, 1944. 
NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY 
