. The American fruit culturist. hich, while ornamental shrubs and producing berries, areinferior in the latter respect to E. longipes. Huckleberries. The so-called Huckleberries belong to the Heath family, andto the two genera Gaylussacia and Vaccinium. They are allfound growing wild from Maine to the Mississippi and southto the Gulf. The bushes vary greatly in size, from six inchesto ten feet or more, and the fruit differs as greatly, from juicyand sweet to dry and insipid. Immense tracts, especially ofG. resinosa, the common black huckleberry of our markets, WILD AND UNCLASSIFIED FRUITS. 613
. The American fruit culturist. hich, while ornamental shrubs and producing berries, areinferior in the latter respect to E. longipes. Huckleberries. The so-called Huckleberries belong to the Heath family, andto the two genera Gaylussacia and Vaccinium. They are allfound growing wild from Maine to the Mississippi and southto the Gulf. The bushes vary greatly in size, from six inchesto ten feet or more, and the fruit differs as greatly, from juicyand sweet to dry and insipid. Immense tracts, especially ofG. resinosa, the common black huckleberry of our markets, WILD AND UNCLASSIFIED FRUITS. 613 are found -usually in clearings on hills, all over the UnitedStates north of Georgia and Alabama. The gathering of thiscrop annually furnishes employment to large numbers of men,women, and children of the poorer class, from whom it is pur-chased by farmers and others, who daily meet the pickers atan appointed spot, and by them the berries are boxed and for-warded to market. Some attempts have been made to cultivate this Fig. 811.—Clump of Black Huckleberries. Joseph Meehan says that if cut down one-half and transplantedto the garden in the spring few will die, and they will bearthe second year, with promise of good crops thereafter. It isfurther stated by others that with all the varieties the size ofthe fruit increases under good cultivation. The growing of the huckleberry is one of the few as yet un-developed fields of horticulture, and seems to promise satis-factory returns to the patient investigator. While there are a number of species belonging to the twogenera mentioned, the follov/ing only are worth considerationas edible. 5l4 WILD AND UNCLASSIFIED FRUITS. Varieties. Bilberry.* {Vaccinium ccEspitosum.) Grows on a very low bushthree to six inches high, in sandy, hilly ground ; berry large, lightblue, round; good. Black Huckleberry. {Gayhissacia resmosa.) Grows on dry sandy,rocky, hilly woods and clearings, one to three feet high. Thereare a number of varieties
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