List of berries: berry picking with Bridget Jacobs, Joe Batt's Arm

• Main Author: Power, Maureen
• Other Authors: Jacobs, Bridget
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Food; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Berries; Empetrum nigrum; Cloudberry; Blueberries; Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Cranberries; Gooseberries; European black currant; Crowberry; Newfoundland; Rubus chamaemorus
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_cn/id/232

Bridget lists the various types of berries and the order in which they ripen: "blackberries", "bakeapple", blueberry, "blue herts", "partridgeberries", "marshberries", cranberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants. The black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) is locally known as the blackberry; also earthberry or heathberry. The bakeapple is the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus). Blue herts (or hurt or hort) is one of a number of species of whortleberries or blueberries that grow in the area. The partridgeberry is the mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) or cowberry. The marshberry is the common or small American cranberry (Oxycoccus vulgaris).(Waghorne, 1888)