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iS JUNE — Another early berry ripens a few days before the Cabot. It 
will fulfill your highest hope of fresh fruit blueberries, also an ornamental 
bush. 
JERSEY — A late big blueberry. It is a good canning, freezing, and shin~ 
ping berry. Really a general purpose berry. As an ornamental bush it has the 
style of any ornamental tree. 
> BURLINGTON — Bush vigor and upright. Spread with large leaves. 
The fruit is a good blue color. It’s flavor carries the dessert qualities of any 
fruit. Doesn’t leave your taste wishing for something else. 
Sh RANCOCAS — A big rugged bush shoulder high. It is dependable in pro- 
duction, in qualities, style, and beauty. I wish to say it will give a lot of 
pleasure and profit and no trouble to grow. 
RUBEL — We believe the Rubel is about the widest planted blueberry 
that we know of. It is hardy and productive, light blue, very firm, and ships 
well. The bush grows up in a desirable manner. 
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a: DIXIE — The largest blueberry ever introduced. They are larger than a 
nickel. You can’t doubt it as we have plenty of proof. Not as extensively 
planted as Rancecas, Rubel, and Jersey. 
\ ATLANTIC —. Next to Dixie in size, bush grows like you want a bush 
te grow. The berries are firm and have good dessert qualities. It also has the 
shipping qualities. 
> PEMBERTON —. Ranks them in size and a very healthy growing bush. 
A large producer with all of the good qualities for dessert. 
The Blueberries are a comnaratively new branch of agriculture to the 
farmers of America. The U. S. Denartment of Agriculture test plot is located 
right here in the neighborhood. We are personal friends of the manager of 
the government test plot. He is also a large grower of Blueberries. 
The blueberry has alarmed the land in pleasure, profit and food value. 
Large canning and freezing plants buy them by truck leads here. It is fun to 
grow them and fun to show them to your neighbors. When you go to eat them 
there is so much nature to the looks of them and to the flavor that you will 
forget all other fruits and think about the great Blueberry. 
BLUEBERRY CULTURE 
You should have two different varieties near each other, then they are 
both benefited through the blossom pollination. 
The land should be damp, but well drained, with the plants set either 4 
feet by 10 feet or 6 feet by 6 feet and remember that it is to bear fruit for 
70 years or more. Blueberries will grow from North Carolina to Alaska. Any 
where huckleberries, Azaleas or Mountain Laurel grows so will blueberries. 
Don’t use lime or stable manure, but if you do want to have the best blue- 
berries in your community get leaves and rotted limbs from the swamp and 
put around the plant. This keeps weeds down and moisture up. The secret in 
growing them is to keep the ground worked often and shallow so that the air 
can penetrate into the soil. 
This is one subject that we should be in a position to answer your quest- 
ions about as we have the government test plot for our neighbor. 
BLUEBERRY PRICE LIST 
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