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Iris Marie Coville Thompson Ortner Collection
Collection of all photos and documents from the Iris Marie Coville Thimpson Ortner Collection, granddaughter of Dr. Frederick Coville, showcasing the history of blueberry culture during its creation at Whitesbog Village and Farms.
Whitesbog Blueberries in the Garden
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Whitesbog Blueberry and Blueberry Culture
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10/25/1911 "Cutting made Sept. 15, 1911 ... With letter Dec 20, 1911."
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10/25/1911 "Cutting made Sept. 15, 1911"
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11/2/1911 "Cutting made Sept 15, 1911"
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10/29/1912 "From Sooy ... With Letter of Dec 3, 1912."
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1913 "Sooy in Old Field"
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1913 "Sooy in Old Field" copy
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1913 "Sooy in Old Field"
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6/30/1913 "South Row, first bush"
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6/30/1913 "South row, first bush"
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6/30/1913 "North row, first bush"
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6/30/1913 "North row, first bush, east side"
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6/30/1913 "First bush, north row, north side"
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7/22/1913 "With letter of July 28, 1913"
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9/4/1913 "With Letter of Oct 8, 1913"
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5/18/1914 "Wild Blueberry Bush in Little Meadow"
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5/18/1914 "Brooks Seedling from Washington"
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5/18/1914 "Rube Leek bush"
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5/18/1914 "A Rube Leek bush one year old."
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5/18/1914 "A Rube Leek bush one year old."
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5/18/1914 "One year old Rube Leek bush"
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Huckleberry Sign "I will pay 1-3 dollars per huckleberry bush"
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6/16/1914 "Sooy"
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7/9/1914 "Rube Leek with sheet behind it"
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7/9/1914 "Rube Leeks in Rows"
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7/9/1914 "Brooks seedling of 1908"
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7/9/1914 "Brooks seedling of 1908"
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7/9/1914 "Brooks seedlings of 1908, planting of 1911"
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7/9/1914 "Brooks seedlings of 1908. planting of 1911"
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7/9/1914 "Russel x Brooks hyrbid"
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7/9/1914 "Russel x Brooks hybrid"
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7/9/1914 "Russel x Brooks hybrid"
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7/9/1914 "Box of berries from Brooks seedlings from 1908, planting of 1911."
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7/9/1914 "The Island"
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7/9/1914 "Eight foot bush called The Island beside Elizabeth White"
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7/9/1914 "Wild Blueberries in the Old Bog"
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7/9/1914 "Plantation and Washington Hybrid"
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7/9/1914 "Cutting from the spring of 1912"
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7/9/1914 "Sooy plant"
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7/9/1914 "Cutting of the spring of 1913"
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7/9/1914 "Taken July 9, 1914"
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7/10/1914
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7/10/1914 "Union Field with Horse-Drawn Cart"
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7-10-1914 "Harrow with Elizabeth White in Background"
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7/10/1914 "Plowed ground pictures of July 10,1914."
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7/10/1914
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7/10/1914
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7/10/1914 "Shaded raised nursery beds"
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7/10/1914
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7/29/1914
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7/29/1914
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7/29/1914 "Blueberry propagating frame with covers removed for photographing"
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7/29/1914 "Rube Leek"
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7/29/1914 "Rube Leek"
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7/29/1914 "Rube Leek"
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7/29/1914 "Chatsworth"
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7/29/1914 "Haines"
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7/29/1914 "The berries on the bush are a few late ones and do not represent the crop."
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7/29/1914 "The berries do not represent the crop as the first had already been picked."
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7/29/1914 "The bush had already been picked and the berries do not represent the crop."
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7/29/1914 "A bush planted March 1, 1912 on which the old top had been left."
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7/29/1914 "Largest Haines berry"
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7/29/1914 "Chatsworth natural size"
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7/29/1914 "Rubel - the small berries are immature"
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7/29/1914 "Only the 8 berries at the top are ripe"
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7/29/1914 "Rube Leek in box"
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7/29/1914 "Selected Rube Leek berries"
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7/30/1914 "Fred Brown plants"
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7/30/1914 "Fred Brown plants from old wood cuttings."
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7/30/1914 "Left Fred Brown Right S Feuerman"
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7/30/1914 "S Feuerman ... Brand weed to guage depth of covering cuttings"
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7/30/1914 "Brand weed as gauge for depth"
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7/30/1914 "Stevenson young wood cuttings."
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5/12/1915 "One of the first plants raised by E.C.W. from a cutting."
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5/12/1915 "Old Field, row 6, plant 3 (38 in wide)"
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5/12/1915 "Old Field, row 6, plant 7 (38 in wide)"
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5/12/1915 "Old Field, row 9, plant 4 (20 in wide)"
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5/12/1915 "Birdsall"
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5/12/1915 "Copy of Birdsall with paperclip damage"
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5/12/1915 "Grant no. 4"
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5/12/1915 "Haines no. 10"
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5/12/1915 "Haines no. 4"
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5/12/1915 "Row 23, Haines no. 12"
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5/12/1915 "Anderson no. 2"
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5/12/1915 "Row 27, Haines no. 9"
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5/12/1915 "Harding"
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5/12/1915 "Harding"
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5/12/1915 "Rubel"
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5/12/1915 "Rubels in Old Field"
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5/12/1915 "Rubel"
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5/12/1915 "Copy of Rubel with torn corner"
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5/12/1915 "Rubel"
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5/12/1915 "607"
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5/12/1915 "608"
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5/12/1915 "Sooy flowers"
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5/12/1915 "Sooy branch"
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5/12/1915 "Chatsworth flowers"
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5/12/1915 "Ralph"
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5/12/1915 "Haines 12"
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5/12/1915 "Old Field, row 14, plant 3, Grant 1"
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5/12/1915 "Birdsall"
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5/12/1915 "Anderson 1"
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5/12/1915 "Lurker 2"
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5/12/1915 "Luker 1"
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5/12/1915 "Haines 9"
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5/12/1915 "Haines no. 12"
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5/12/1915 "Rubel Flowers"
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5/13/1915 "Sorrel as a weed near row 6, plant 7, Old Field"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Sooy x Brooks"
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5/13/1915 "Washington Field, row D, plants 14 and flowering."
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5/13/1915 "Russel x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Russel x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Washington Field, row AE, plant 20 (12 in wide)"
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5/13/1915 "Washington Field"
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5/13/1915 "Old Field"
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5/13/1915 "Union Field, camera half way between plant 1, row B, and plant 1, row C"
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5/13/1915 "Wild Bush near the Old Bog"
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5/13/1915 "Wild Bush near the Old Bog Copy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy hybrid flowers"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Sooy x Brooks"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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5/13/1915 "Brook x Sooy Hybrid in Washington Field"
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5/24/1915 "Cutting 731"
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6/30/1915 "Photographed June 21, 1915"
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7/7/1915 "Photograph Taken with 9 1/2 inch lens."
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7/7/1915 "Photograph Taken with 9 1/2 inch lens." copy
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7/7/1915 "Russel x Brooks"
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7/7/1915 "Brooks x Russell"
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7/7/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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7/7/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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7/7/1915 "Copy of Brooks x Sooy"
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7/7/1915 "Russell x Sooy"
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7/7/1915 "Cluster of Brooks x Sooy"
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7/7/1915 "Cluster of Brooks berries"
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7/7/1915 "Cluster of Brooks berries" copy
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7/7/1915 "Blueberry Size Comparison"
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7/7/1915 "Brooks-Sooy hybrid berries"
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 6, plant 7, Old Bog."
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 12, plant 7, Birdsall."
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 12, plant 7, Birdsall." copy
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 22, plant 4, Haines #7"
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 27, plant 1, Haines no. 9"
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 30, plant 11, Harding."
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 31, plant 14, Rubel."
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7/27/1915 "Old Field, row 31, plant 21, Rubel."
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7/27/1915 "Copy of Old Field Rubel with measurements."
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7/27/1915 "Haines no. 9"
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy. Original Premier plant"
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy."
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy."
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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7/27/1915 "Haines no. 9"
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7/27/1915 "Cluster of berries from Grant no. 1"
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7/27/1915 "Cluster of Birdsall berries"
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7/27/1915 "Cluster of Haines no. 12 berries"
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7/27/1915 "Cluster of Rubel berries."
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7/27/1915 "Harding"
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7/27/1915 "Cluster of Sooy berries."
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy."
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy"
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy" copy
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7/27/1915 "Brooks x Sooy."
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7/27/1915 "Old Field. Whitesbog, New Jersey"
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7/27/1915 "Plantation of three-year-old blueberry hybrids."
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7/27/1915 "Union Field. Whitesbog, New Jersey."
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7/27/1915 "Blueberry Propagation Frames"
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7/27/1915 "Blueberry Propagation Frames Copy"
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7/27/1915 "Blueberry plants in process of propagation from root cuttings. George cuttings"
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7/27/1915 "Blueberry plants in process of propagation" copy with measurements on back.
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10/8/1915 "A freshly ringed blueberry stem ... Note: this ring is probably too narrow"
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10/8/1915 "Ringed Blueberry Stem which has healed over the ring and as a consequence no roots have formed."
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10/8 - 11/6, 1915 "Blueberry stem"
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10/8/1915, "Potted blueberry plant, 3913"
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1916 "Budded in 1916"
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6/3/1916 "Russel x Brooks in a Row"
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7/2/1916 "Berries picked from wild bush"
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7/2/1916 "Berries picked from wild bush" copy with torn corner
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7/5/1916 "Washinton berries"
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7/18/1916 "Old Bog plant from an old root planted March 1, 1912."
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7/18/1916 "Bush of Anderson no. 1"
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7/18/1916 "Plants of Haines no. 4"
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7/18/1916 ""Birdsall" from an old root planted spring of 1913."
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7/18/1916 ""Harding" from an old root planted spring of 1913."
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7/18/1916 ""Rubel" from an old root planted spring of 1913."
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7/18/1916 ""Rubel" plant from a cutting, planted spring of 1913."
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7/18/1916 ""Rubel" from a cutting of 1913."
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7/18/1916 "Haines no. 7"
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7/18/1916 "Section of cutting frame showing sprouts from old wood, tubered cuttings ."
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7/18/1916 "Original bush of Pioneer"
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7/18/1916 "Washington Field"
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7/18/1916 "Washington Field"
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