There is a new esculent coming called the blueberry. It is, in its best development, “as big as a cherry, splendid for pies, and as delicious with cream as strawberries.” The New Zealand Smallholder reports that several members of the New
Zealand Nursery Trades Association have been testing plants of the most improved American hybrids, and these have promised well experimentally in North Auckland, Palmerston North. Lower Hutt, Christchurch and Southland. The fruit grows on a thornless, gooseberry-!ike bush in clusters, and its wide climatic range from frosty Southland to tepid North Auckland gives it a snecial value. It is propagated by mound layering.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 223, 9 February 1928, Page 3
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