. Our northern shrubs and how to identify them : a handbook for the nature-lover . Shrubs. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY dark green above, white or pale beneath, the margins revolute. Flowers appear in June in few-flowered clusters, slightly racemose. Calyx is four-parted ; corolla four-parted, anthers exserted with very long terminal tubes ; berry four-celled, red, acid. Found in bogs from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territory and southward to North Carolina, Michigan, and Min- nesota. Extensively cultivated ; produces the cran- berry of the market. The Small or European Cran- berry, Oxycocais oxycocc
. Our northern shrubs and how to identify them : a handbook for the nature-lover . Shrubs. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY dark green above, white or pale beneath, the margins revolute. Flowers appear in June in few-flowered clusters, slightly racemose. Calyx is four-parted ; corolla four-parted, anthers exserted with very long terminal tubes ; berry four-celled, red, acid. Found in bogs from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territory and southward to North Carolina, Michigan, and Min- nesota. Extensively cultivated ; produces the cran- berry of the market. The Small or European Cran- berry, Oxycocais oxycoccus, also occurs in the extreme north, de- scending as far south as New Jer- sey and Michigan. A southern form appears in the mountains of Virginia and southward. Professor Bailey, in " The Evo- lution of Our Native Fruits," writes of the cranberry as follows: " The cranberry, the most unique of American horticultural products, was first cultivated, or rescued from mere wild bogs, about 1S10. Its cultivation began to attract attention about 1840, although the difficulties connected with the growing of this new crop did not begin to clear away before 1850. Cape Cod was the first cranberry-growing region, which was soon fol lowed by New Jersey, and later by Wisconsin and other regions. The varieties now known are over a hundred, all having been picked up in bogs, and the annual product from tame bogs in the United States is more than 800,000 ; 342. American Cranberry, Oxycoccus viacrocarpus. Leaves ~%f to Vz' 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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