英语词汇blueberry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blueberry. The blueberry, like the blackberry, is of course named for the color of its berries. Blueberries have been a favorite food for centuries and are among the most widely distributed fruits. Early colonists gathered the “blues,” “whortleberries,” and “bilberries,” and made good use of them as the Indians had done since prehistoric times. But more than any other fruit, cultivated blueberries are children of the 20th century. It was in the early 1900s that Elizabeth C. White of Whitesbog, New Jersey (one of several pioneer women fruit growers), offered local prizes for highbush blueberries bearing the largest fruits. Hearing of her work, Dr. Frederick V. Cov- ille, a U.S. Department of Agriculture plant breeder, began to work in cooperation with her starting in 1909, and crossed many wild plants she or her contestants had selected from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, an area with an acid, sandy, but fertile soil. By the time Coville died in 1937 there were 30 large-fruited, named highbush varieties where there had been none, and today there are myriad varieties that have been se- lected from hundreds of thousands of fruited hybrid seedlings. From its status as a lowly fruit often confused with the huckle- berry (even though, unlike the bony-seeded huckleberry, its 50 to 75 seeds are small and barely noticeable when eaten), White and Coville had elevated the blueberry to a position where it became the basis for an entirely new agricultural in- dustry. Vaccinium corymbosum, the highbush or swamp blue- berry, had gone through a revolution rather than an evolution and became a mass-produced fruit in less than 25 years. See bilberries; rabbit-eye.

词汇	blueberry
词源	blueberry. The blueberry, like the blackberry, is of course named for the color of its berries. Blueberries have been a favorite food for centuries and are among the most widely distributed fruits. Early colonists gathered the “blues,” “whortleberries,” and “bilberries,” and made good use of them as the Indians had done since prehistoric times. But more than any other fruit, cultivated blueberries are children of the 20th century. It was in the early 1900s that Elizabeth C. White of Whitesbog, New Jersey (one of several pioneer women fruit growers), offered local prizes for highbush blueberries bearing the largest fruits. Hearing of her work, Dr. Frederick V. Cov- ille, a U.S. Department of Agriculture plant breeder, began to work in cooperation with her starting in 1909, and crossed many wild plants she or her contestants had selected from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, an area with an acid, sandy, but fertile soil. By the time Coville died in 1937 there were 30 large-fruited, named highbush varieties where there had been none, and today there are myriad varieties that have been se- lected from hundreds of thousands of fruited hybrid seedlings. From its status as a lowly fruit often confused with the huckle- berry (even though, unlike the bony-seeded huckleberry, its 50 to 75 seeds are small and barely noticeable when eaten), White and Coville had elevated the blueberry to a position where it became the basis for an entirely new agricultural in- dustry. Vaccinium corymbosum, the highbush or swamp blue- berry, had gone through a revolution rather than an evolution and became a mass-produced fruit in less than 25 years. See bilberries; rabbit-eye.
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