218 Oranherry Culture. — A Singular Fact. [May, 



In 1850, we picked seventeen bushels of berries on the swamp; in 

 1851, twenty eight bushels; in 1852, ninety-three bushels; in 1853, 

 we estimated them at one hundred and fifty bushels. 



In 1852, the native vines produced by estimation, before selling, forty 

 bushels ; the transplanted vines, sixty bushels ; the increase this year 

 is, principally, from the transplanted vines. I now give you a statement 

 of the proceeds : 



1850 picked 17 bushels, sold 15J bushels for $ 26,20 



1851 " 28 " " 26 " " 70,00 



1852 " 93 " «« 93 " " 300,00 



1853 " 52 barrels, " 52 barrels, " 380,00 



1854 " 47 " ♦' 47 " " 305,00 



1855 " 50 by estimation, probable value 500,00 



$1581,20 

 Eemarks. — Since the above statement was made, we have learned 

 from Mr. Flint, that he had just fifty barrels of cranberries as his crop 

 in 1855, which he sold for thirteen dollars a barrel, delivered at the depot 

 two miles from the house, making the pretty sum of six hundred and 

 fifty dollars, as the product of two acres of what was quite recently an 

 almost worthless bog meadow. Mr. Flint also states that in looking 

 about he notices a good many tracts of land apparently as good for the 

 cranberry crop as his, and that some of the pieces might much more 

 readily be flowed and reclaimed than his own. 



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A SINGULAR FACT, 



When a lake happens to dry up, the surface will always be soon cov- 

 ered by a vegetation which is peculiar, and entirely different from that 

 which flourished on its former banks. In M. de Brebisson's work on 

 the useful mosses, this botanist states that a pond, in the neighborhood 

 of Falain, in France, having been rendered dxj, during many weeks in 

 the hight of summer, the mud in drying was immediatley covered, to the 

 extent of many square yards, by a minute, compact, green leaf, formed 

 by an imperceptible moss, the Phaseum avillaire, the stalks of which 

 were so close to each other, that upo-n a square inch of this new soil 

 might be counted more than five thousand individuals of this minute 

 plant, which had never previously been observed in that country ! 



