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 New Jersey crop 
of 1946 was worth 3 million dollars. 
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 varrying 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 be- 
.came the parents of varieties now in cultivation. 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. 
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 a leaflet that tells how to 
plant the bushes and how to care for them. You can put them five feet 
apart in rows eight feet apart. You need two varieties for pollination. 
If you are absolutely squeezed for room, you can put two plants 
two feet apart and let them grow as one bush, but 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. 
See our price list for plants. 
Free leaflet on planting and care with each order. 
Address all communications : 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY - SWARTHMORE, PA. 
