CRANBERRIES. Ill 



and $1,50 per bushel, and rather at these prices a drug in the 

 market. 



On the sandy, low necks of land in Barnstable county, it 

 grows wild, and in great abundance, and the people there have, 

 annually, a festival for gathering its fruit. In 1830, in Lin- 

 coln, Mass., one grower raised 400' bushels of cranberries. A 

 very successful cultivator near Cape Cod has converted his sand 

 bogs and lands covered with bushes into very productive cran- 

 berry beds. His method is simple, and may be easily adopted 

 elsewhere. 



First, drain the land, then remove the brush, then plough the 

 land so cleared, and plant the vine. Or, you may haul boach 

 sand sufficient for a heavy top-dressing, and having done so, 

 dig holes three or four feet apart, (perhaps two feet apart each 

 way would be better,) and into these holes insert sods with the 

 vine, which, when planted, will soon spread over the brush and 

 rush, and coat the surface of the ground. 



Many experiments have been made to cultivate the cranberry, 

 with more or less success. The experiments and results •of 

 them, made by cultivators residing near the sea-shore, are much 

 wanted, and should be communicated to the public. 



There are two, well known species, the common American 

 Cranberry, ( Oxycoccus Macrocarpiis,') and tlie European Cran- 

 berry, ( Oxycoccus Palustris.') There is a plant called the 

 Scotch Cranberry, ( Vaccinium vitis idcea.^ This is not a 

 variety of the cranberry, but belongs to a different genus of 

 plants, as does also the plant commonly called the High Bush 

 Cranlicrry, ( Viburnnm Opidus.') 



The American Cranberry was introduced into England by Sir 

 Joseph Banks, and by him made ^ subject of garden culture. 



Of the American Cranberry there may be several varieties, 

 known by their peculiar shape and color, and all valuable. 

 Whether the intermixture of the plants will vary or improve 

 the fruit, remains to be tested by experiment, and we commend 

 it to the attention of cultivators. The theory of propagation in 

 regard to other plants, may equally apply to this. The pollen 

 of one kind falling on the blossom of another, may so change 

 the distinctive characteristics of the cranberry as to essentially 

 improve the product and multiply its varieties — and those who 

 have paid most attention to this subject at present are of 



