Here's the story. 
As you perhaps know, there is a small seedy low bush huckleberry 
(15-18 inches high) that grows on the Appalachian mountains from 
New York to Georgia. This is quite different from the large meaty 
high bush blueberry (bush 4-7 feet high) which grows wild in moist 
lands near the Atlantic. In its wild form this high bush berry has be- 
come the basis of a rather important canning industry in Maine, with a 
scattering market production down to Carolina. 
The late Frederick V. Coville, a botanist in the Department of 
Agriculture, was blessed with constructive imagination. He distributed 
pieces of metal with holes of varying sizes to pickers of wild blue- 
berries in the Atlantic Coast Plain and offered to pay a good price 
for any bush that produced berries that would not go through certain 
holes in the metal. By this means, he gathered a garden of the choicest 
high bush blueberry bushes. These were the genius plants selected 
from many millions of wild ones. Some of these selected plants are 
being cultivated. Others were crossed to produce better blueberries 
than the wild ones. 
It is these improved high bush blueberry bushes that we are offer- 
ing for sale. The New Jersey Crop is worth 3 million dollars some years. 
At first it was thought that since the blueberries came from low land 
near swamps, they would not grow on good upland, but such is not the 
case. These berries are now growing in hundreds of places between 
Canada and Cotton Belt, Wisconsin and the Atlantic Ocean. You can 
mulch the bushes and they will do well in almost any old corner. 
If you buy from us, we will furnish free instruction that tells how to 
plant the bushes and how to care for them. You can put them four or 
five feet apart in rows eight feet apart. You need two varieties for 
pollination. 
Almost any family will enjoy a dozen or two dozen or three dozen 
of these delightful bushes. If they should in time make more berries 
than you can eat in summer, they are excellent canned and there is 
your private quick freeze locker. You will soon have one. Lockers 
are sweeping the country like a new style in hair-do. If you should 
happen to have a few more berries than you want, you can easily sell 
them on the bush to your neighbors’ youngsters, who will gladly take 
them on a basis remunerative to both parties. 
