Discussion on Cranberry Growing. 47 



DISCUSSION ON CRANBERRY GROWING, 



The Secretary — In arranging the program of this meeting, I have 

 solicited this paper with a view of calling attention to this neglected 

 though important fruit. There are but few sections of our country, 

 as for instance the Cape Cod region in Massachusetts and portions 

 of New Jersey and Wisconsin, where cranberry culture in a com- 

 mercial way has been attempted, though there are vast regions 

 throughout many of the Northern States and the Canadas where it 

 is almost a natural product of the country. It is in regions of this 

 kind where it is desired to encourage the artificial culture of this 

 fruit. 



Mr. Parry, of New Jersey — I am connected with a stock company 

 organized for the growing of cranberries in my State, which for a 

 few years promised to be successful ; but of late the plants and fruit 

 have been affected by the scab, so that we feel discouraged. We 

 have so far failed to find a practical remedy for this trouble. We 

 must be careful in the selection of land for cranberry culture. My 

 best success has been in the bottom of an old mill dam, where the 

 ground is always moist. I know of plantations that have been very 

 successful for a long series of years, but these are the exceptions. 

 We very much desire and need information as to the means of check- 

 ing the scab. 



Mr. Stickney, of Wisconsin — The cranberry interest brings into our 

 State yearly from $800,000 to $500,000. Thousands of acres of marsh 

 lands are planted by nature, yielding from 50 to 200 bushels per 

 acre. A good water supply is essential to winter protection, and 

 this should be soft water also. We need a little longer season for 

 the perfection of the berry. Limestone water is death to the plants. 



Mr. Augur, of Connecticut — I do not know of a successful planta- 

 tion on upland. 



The President — AVe will now listen to a paper by F. S. Earle on 



FUNGOID DISEASES OF THE STRAWBERRY. 



BY F. S. EARLE, OF ILLINOIS. 



Like nearly all species of flowering plants, the strawberry furnishes a 

 home to several of those minute forms of vegetation known as fungi. O 



