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vrere well grown, but no statement accompanied them. We know 

 nothino; of the manner of cultivation. 



Mr. MiUikoi's Statement oji Cranberries. The specimen of 

 cranberries, presented for your examination, I gathered from vines 

 transplanted and cultivated in the following manner : 



The vines were taken up late in the fall, in sods, about two feet 

 square, and from three to four inches thick, in a pasture where they 

 grew spontaneously. These I transplanted in rows, about two feet 

 apart each way, in a portion of a field where the soil was poor, and 

 the sward had never been broken. I removed the turf sufficiently 

 to receive the sods, leaving them a little above the surface of the 

 ground ; the whole covering a space fifty feet long by twelve wide. 

 From this spot, which was a little lower than the surface around it, 

 I dug a small drain, so that no standing water should cover the 

 vines in the spring, as my object was to see if they could be made 

 to flourish on land not moistened by adjacent springs, or flooded by 

 heavy rain^. The spring following, I spread on fine sand about two 

 inches deep, mostly between the rows, partly to kill the grass, but 

 mainly to facilitate the rooting of the runners. The vines began to 

 spread rapidly, and soon covered the space between the rows, and 

 on the first of September last, appeared to be in a very flourishing 

 condition, and promised a yield, nearly, if not quite equal to that of 

 natural meadows. No manure of any kind was used, except the 

 sand above mentioned, which I consider suflicient if the soil contains 

 a good share of clay or muck. As the hoe cannot be used where 

 the vines have spread over the surface, an occasional coating of sand 

 would be beneficial. Although the cranberry in its natural state, 

 is the product of wet lands, I think it may be profitably cultivated 

 in comparatively dry soil, if treated in the above manner. 



S. S. MiLLIKEJT. 



Buxton, October 3, 1857. 



