. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 244 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS GaylussHcia and Vacdnium. The Hlcklebekries and Blueberries are wild plants rarely brought into cultivation even for fruiting purposes, and thus scarcely need a place in this hook. Still there are a few species which have beautiful flowers, foliage, and fruit and belong to the very limited group which thrive in shady places. High-bush Blueberry—Vaccinium atroooccum (V. corymb6suin) — is a tall straggling shrub 4 to 12 feet with yellowish green warty branches, alternate usually entire leaves, wh
. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 244 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS GaylussHcia and Vacdnium. The Hlcklebekries and Blueberries are wild plants rarely brought into cultivation even for fruiting purposes, and thus scarcely need a place in this hook. Still there are a few species which have beautiful flowers, foliage, and fruit and belong to the very limited group which thrive in shady places. High-bush Blueberry—Vaccinium atroooccum (V. corymb6suin) — is a tall straggling shrub 4 to 12 feet with yellowish green warty branches, alternate usually entire leaves, white or pinkish tubular flowers in clusters on short leafless twigs, May, June, and abundant many-seeded blue-black berries, July, August. Deerberry or Buokberry — Vaccinium stamlneum — is a spreading branched shrub 2 to 5 feet with entire-edged pale leaves and abundant green- ish white bell-shaped nodding flowers with projecting stamens, April to June. The large greenish or yellowish berries (^ inch) are hardly edible. [Seeds, with difficulty; divisions.]. Fig. 408. — Deerberry. Fig. 409. — Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908; Draycott, Ada (Apgar). New York, Cincinnati [etc] American Book Company
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