Highbush Blueberries in Western Nova Scotia

Abstract

Western Nova Scotia is one of the few regions in Canada where the highbush blueberry can be grown, the wild highbush, Vaccinium corymbosum, being plentiful in the three western counties. The Experimental Farm at Kentville is somewhat beyond this native habitat and only one volunteer plant in the local area, apparently an escape from the Experimental Station plots, has come to the attention of this writer. The original planting at Kentville, made in 1926, is still vigorous and productive, and by bearing crops consistently during the intervening period of thirty-one years without one general crop failure, has demonstrated the suitability of the crop to the region.