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The huckleberries are low shrubs with white, red, or reddish green flowers, and blue or black mostly edible fruits. The deciduous species are hardy North, but are of little decorative value, the handsomest being G. dumosa, while the evergreen species, all inhabitants of the South American mountains, except the half-hardy G. brachycera are often very ornamental in foliage and flowers, but tender and hardly cultivated in this country. They grow best in peaty or sandy soil and in shaded situations; but G. baccata thrives well also in drier localities and exposed to the full sun; like other Ericaceae;, they are all impatient of limestone. Propagated by seeds, layers or division; the evergreen species by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass. See also Vaccinium for cultivation.

The huckleberries are low shrubs with white, red, or reddish green flowers, and blue or black mostly edible fruits. The deciduous species are hardy North, but are of little decorative value, the handsomest being G. dumosa, while the evergreen species, all inhabitants of the South American mountains, except the half-hardy G. brachycera are often very ornamental in foliage and flowers, but tender and hardly cultivated in this country. They grow best in peaty or sandy soil and in shaded situations; but G. baccata thrives well also in drier localities and exposed to the full sun; like other Ericaceae;, they are all impatient of limestone. Propagated by seeds, layers or division; the evergreen species by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass. See also Vaccinium for cultivation.

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