ly each year until amLOta ls Of 428 LOn 1s pIntais 
used per plant at age 5 to 6 years. 
Cultivation will not be necessary in the home 
planting if a 3-4 inch mulch of rotten saw- 
dust, peat moss or pine needles are used. In 
commercial plantings—cultivate shallow, as 
blueberry roots are near the surface, and keep 
free from weeds and grass. 
Picking: Under good growing conditions % to 1 pint 
of berries will be produced the second season, 
depending on the size stock you order. Yields 
will increase rayidly until 8 to 10 pints are 
produced annuaily after four or five seasons. 
Pick when fully mature. Immature berries 
pull when picked, the stem scar is pinkish 
red and the fruits do not have the full-bodied, 
rich blueberry flavor. 
Processing: These delicious fruits may be used fresh 
on cereals, as a fruit dessert, in sherberts, 
jams, weffles and muffins or easily processed 
by canning or freezing for all-year-round 
enjoyment. 
RABBITEYE BLUEBERRY 
The Rabbiteye Blueberry is highly recommended 
by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as the finest 
new home fruit for the Southern States from North 
Carolina southward and by the N. C. Extnesion 
Service for the coastal region and the lower Pied- 
mont of North Carolina. This species will tolerate 
more adverse sites than the Highbush, produces 
berries at a later season than the early Highbush 
and sets fruits in greater profusion. One variety 
produced 49.7 quarts in a single season in Georgia 
when 14 years old and it is not unusual for a 
three-year-old plant to yield 8 to 10 pints. The Rab- 
biteye Blueberry is an attractive, fast-growing orna- 
mental shrub which is adapted to wide usage in the 
garden and home and market planting throughout 
the South. 
This is the first time that a complete collection 
of the newest varieties have been offered by a com- 
mercial nursery despite the fact that more than 
3500 acres of unselected Rabbiteye Blueberries have 
been planted commercially in the deep South within 
the past 30 years. 
RABBITEYE BLUEBERRY VARIETIES 
CLARA—Upright graceful growing shrub to 10 ft.; 
fruits attractive deep blue, ripening from late 
June to late July. Finest fruit flavor and 
excellent shipper. 
MYERS~—A rapid low growing and attractive blue- 
fruited selection bearing a profusion of ber- 
ries from late June to early August. Very 
ornamental with excellent fruit qualities. 
Good shipper. 
