One Hundred+ Years of USA !

Back in 1916, New Jersey farmer,

Highbush Elizabeth White, brought the first highbush blueberries to market. It took years of From Forest Berry to Market Star! work to produce plump, juicy berries with good flavor and texture for commercial

production.

Farmer, Elizabeth White, was determined to commercially produce exceptional blueberries -- a fruit she loved! She dreamed of bushes "with Size of berry large, succulent fruit." was the obvious quality on Dr. Frederick V. Coville's research study, which to base the first "Experiments in Blueberry Culture,” (Nov. selection... but 1910) so impressed Elizabeth White, that she we early learned that many convinced her father, Joseph J. White, to offer other qualities are Dr. Coville, a stipend and the use of their land of equal or greater to further investigate the viability of importance. commercial production. The Whites often discussed the potential of Good flavor producing and aroma native forest we must have. berries growing Elizabeth Coleman White in the area as Equally important is - Highbush Blueberry Grower an auxiliary fine texture.... crop. In partnership with Coville, the pair identified native plants from New Jersey's I assure you Pinelands. They made cuttings, and from personal experience propagated seedlings, growing thousands of that blueberries have plants and identifying the most promising varieties for production. In 1916 the first qualities capable of Frederick V. Coville bringing great joy into blueberry crop was shipped to market. - USDA Botanist life." Today Highbush blueberries are produced in 30+ US States. The Highbush blueberry comprises 87% of all blueberries grown in the and White, Elizabeth. Taming three-fourths of the total North American blueberry crop. Overall the United Blueberries, Radio Garden States, Canada and combined, produce nearly one billion pounds Club, Vol. 6, Digest No. (lb.) of blueberries annually. 50,July 6, 1937. References: 1. Agricultural Research Service. Blueberry Growing Comes to the National Agricultural Library. Agricultural Research Magazine. AMS-USDA. May/June 2011, 59:5, p. 14. This publication is found on line at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may11/ 2. Coville, Frederick. Experiments in blueberry Culture, bulletin 193. USDA, Nov. 15, 1910. http://whitesbog.blogspot.com/2010/12/1910-november-15-experiments-in.html 3. The Mighty Humble Blueberry. www.aboutblueberries.com and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S13Mlr78fYU 4. White, Elizabeth. Blueberry Culture. Women's National Farm and Garden Association, Quarterly, 3:1, February 1917,m p. 3-10. 5. Whitesbog Preservation Trust. Blueberry Centennial 2011-2016! newsletter, 1st Quarter 2011. www.whitesbog.org. 6. Whitesbog Preservation Trust. Tru-Blu Blueberries. newsletter. 4th Quarter 2010. www.whitebog.org.

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