. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. WHITE or pinkish fruits, instead of the usual deep blue coloredberries, are not uncommon in certain localities. In some casesthese are simply albino forms; in others the color is due to afungous growth. In the gardens of the Maine ExperimentStation some of the albino forms are now fruiting, and, asidefrom the color, they are perfectly normal. HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF TlIF, GENUS VACCINIUM. 131 Albino forms of certain species—as V. Myrtillus—were earlyobserved. Dodoens, in 1578, mentions some that beare whiteBerries
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. WHITE or pinkish fruits, instead of the usual deep blue coloredberries, are not uncommon in certain localities. In some casesthese are simply albino forms; in others the color is due to afungous growth. In the gardens of the Maine ExperimentStation some of the albino forms are now fruiting, and, asidefrom the color, they are perfectly normal. HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF TlIF, GENUS VACCINIUM. 131 Albino forms of certain species—as V. Myrtillus—were earlyobserved. Dodoens, in 1578, mentions some that beare whiteBerries when they be rype, howbeit they are but seldome fruits are catalogued by Ruppius in Flora Jenensis in1726, and were found by Gmelin in Siberia in In 1854,John Booth of Floetbeck nursery, near Hamburg, Germany,offered for sale plants of a white fruited form of V. Myrtilluswhich had been obtained from the Black A whitefruited form of Vitis-Idcca is also noted as occurring at Lyng-dalen in the province of Christiansand in V. PENNSYLVANICUM, ALBINO. White fruited forms of Pcnnsylvanicum and corymbosumhave been observed by the writer; white vacillans is reported in 1 Lytes Dodoens 670. 2 Cited by Sturtevant, Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 1890, 25. 3 Loudon, Alb. et Fruit. 2:1157.*F1. Dan. 1:9. l$2 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. IOX>I. Garden and Forest, 1893, and other species are and Magnus2 have made a special study of the colorand form variations of Vaccinium. and citations are given whichshow the very general distribution of albino forms throughoutthe world. 1 : special reason for this difference in color can be white forms are found growing (usually in colonies) b)rthe side of the normal type. If exposed to full sunlight, thefruit is very likely to have a blush cheek, or even to be of ascarlet color. _ The albino forms must, however, be carefully distinguishedfrom the white berries caused by the prese
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