. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Fiq. 1 .—Three-Year-Old Blueberry Plant in Commercial Bearing. This plant is a hybrid between two selected wild stocks, from Greenfield, N. H., and Brown Mills, N. J. They were hybridized in the greenhouses at Washington in the summer of 1912, and the hybrid seeds were sown September 9. The young plants were carried over winter in the greenhouse, and early in September, 1913, they were sent to Whitesbog, N. J., and set out in a trial field plantation. The photograph was taken July 27, 1915, when the plant was a little
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Fiq. 1 .—Three-Year-Old Blueberry Plant in Commercial Bearing. This plant is a hybrid between two selected wild stocks, from Greenfield, N. H., and Brown Mills, N. J. They were hybridized in the greenhouses at Washington in the summer of 1912, and the hybrid seeds were sown September 9. The young plants were carried over winter in the greenhouse, and early in September, 1913, they were sent to Whitesbog, N. J., and set out in a trial field plantation. The photograph was taken July 27, 1915, when the plant was a little less than 3 years old. The plant is one of those shown in figure 2 (below). (About one-fifth natural size.). Fig. 2.—Plantation of 3-Year-Old Blueberry Hybrids at Whitesbog These hybrids are of the same age and parentage and have received the same treatment as the plant "shown in figure 1 (above). In the third year from the seed they produced their first commercial crop, valued at 137 per acre, gross receipts. The rows are 5 feet apart and the plants 3 feet apart in the row, too close a spacing for a permanent plantation (which should be 8 by 8 feet) but correspondingly more productive in the earlier 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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