. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MAY AND JUNE. 63 Vaccimum maerocarpon. in diameter.* The leaves hold their olive-green color all winter. The time of flowering is early summer. Cranberry, Large. The large cranberry grows in boggy places from New Jersey to Maine, and may be found in bloom in early summer. The berry is ripe in early autumn ; the finest one is dark red in color, and comes from the boggy districts of Cape Cod. Nantucket also has its cranberry bogs, and the season of picking is quite an important event for the island- ers. The plant is small, the wiry stems usually
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MAY AND JUNE. 63 Vaccimum maerocarpon. in diameter.* The leaves hold their olive-green color all winter. The time of flowering is early summer. Cranberry, Large. The large cranberry grows in boggy places from New Jersey to Maine, and may be found in bloom in early summer. The berry is ripe in early autumn ; the finest one is dark red in color, and comes from the boggy districts of Cape Cod. Nantucket also has its cranberry bogs, and the season of picking is quite an important event for the island- ers. The plant is small, the wiry stems usually reaching a length of about eight or nine inches ; but sometimes they develop a length of two feet or more. It is curious to find that such totally different-look- ing plants as the rhododen- dron and the cranberry are relatives; they belong to the Heath family. * The cultivated varieties (hybrids), arise generally from R. Catawbiense, B. Ponticum, and the tender B. arboreum of the 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co
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