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Members of the genus Vaccinium provide sweet flavor, health benefits and beauty in the garden
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ISN'T IT THRILLING how the simple things we like as children often unfold into worlds of information and meanings as we mature? Take blueberries, for instance.
They were a special treat when I was five years old-something mom brought home from the King Kullen market to our neat and tidy neighborhood on Long Island's north shore. But then, when I was eight, my parents pulled up stakes and moved our family to the wilds of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.
Not long after moving, I lay in my bed one night and watched as fire consumed the slopes of Blue Mountain, a terminal moraine about two miles from our house. I thought it must be a disaster, but my dad explained that the fires were set deliberately. Local folks set the fires, he said, to clear out underbrush and tree growth so that more sunlight could reach the ground and stimulate the growth of wild blueberries that were a source of income for them.

Since these wildings entered commerce, breeders have developed many crosses between high-bush and low-bush species, generally categorized as half-high blueberries, and heat-tolerant rabbit-eye blueberries (Vaccinium virgatum) that do well in the southern states. There are hundreds of named varieties descended from native North American species and thousands around the world. And that's just for blueberries.
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