Higher elevations have wild blueberry and cranberry bushes with more grasses.

Cranberry bushes are cultivated in large, meadowlike depressions called bogs.

He was limping about, picking the best grass he could find from among the roots of the heather and cranberry bushes.

"For a cranberry grower, they're very important," said Mr. Cutts, whose cranberry bushes produce 25 million blooms an acre.

They pollute the air, and they make so much noise, you can't hear the birds (though if you pulled up the lawn and planted a lot of viburnums and hollies and American cranberry bushes and so on, you would attract more).