. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 8oq.—Buffalo Berry. 6i2 WILD AND UNCLASSIFIED FRUITS. inordinately fond of them and appear to know exactly the daythey become just ripe, and on that day they will completelystrip even a large bunch of bushes of every perfect berry. Ifthey are wanted to eat, therefore, they must be protected within a few years, there has been no certainty of. Fig. 8io.—Eleagnus longipes. obtaining this plant from the nurserymen, but frequentlyE. argentea or E. umbellatus have been substituted for it, bothof which, while ornamental shrubs and producing berri
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 8oq.—Buffalo Berry. 6i2 WILD AND UNCLASSIFIED FRUITS. inordinately fond of them and appear to know exactly the daythey become just ripe, and on that day they will completelystrip even a large bunch of bushes of every perfect berry. Ifthey are wanted to eat, therefore, they must be protected within a few years, there has been no certainty of. Fig. 8io.—Eleagnus longipes. obtaining this plant from the nurserymen, but frequentlyE. argentea or E. umbellatus have been substituted for it, bothof which, 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 dai
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