Here’s the story. 
As you perhaps know, there is a small seedy low bush huckle- 
berry (15-18 inches high) that grows on the Appalachian moun- 
tains 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 become 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 dis- 
tributed pieces of metal with holes of varying sizes to pickers of 
wild blueberries 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 gath- 
ered 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 
offering 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 hun- 
dreds 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 re- 
munerative to both parties. 
