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more than fifty years. In the same year, Sir Joseph Banks obtained 
a small quantity of vines from America, and planted a plat of ground 
18 feet square, from which an abundant crop was harvested, in the 
proportion of 460 bushels to the acre. During the next thirty years 
after Mr. Hall had introduced the cultivation, a great many experi- 
ments were made by others, mostly unsuccessful, and the subject 
was consequently brought into such disrepute that general attention 
was not attracted to it “until about the year 1850. Even since then, 
many thousand dollars have been sunk in failures. These failures 
have been useful to some extent, yet the parties who made them 
** paid dearly for the whistle.” 
For some reason not explained, the English experiment, though 
remarkably successful, was not followed up, and the English market, 
as well as other European countries, has to be supplied from Ameri- 
ca. Cape Cod cranberries, for a score of years past, have been ob- 
served on sale in the streets of London and Paris. ‘The exportation 
would doubtless have reached a much greater magnitude if the culti- 
vators could succeed in producing enough to satisfy the home de- 
mand to a reasonable extent; but we confidently anticipate that the 
time is not far distant when this fruit will attain an important rank 
among our exports. With our wide adaptation of climate, natural 
localities, and admirable soil; with the new and increasing interest 
awakened by the almost fabulous profits, together with the opportu- 
nities now afforded for every person to acquaint himself with safe 
and successful methods of culture, it cannot fail to be prosecuted to 
a much greater extent, so that the ever increasing home consumption 
will be provided for, and at no very remote day a portion of our pro- 
duct may be spared for the foreign demand. 
From time to time pamphlets and newspaper articles have been 
published, essaying to give the public reliable information on the 
subject, but most of the theories first advanced have been abandon- 
ed. Ihave before me a pamphlet of 32 pages, published in 1860, 
compiled from a great variety of sources, and professing to give con- 
cise, practical and complete information on the subject, which has 
no present value, except as affording a glimpse of the history and 
progress of its development. For a short period the subject of up- 
land or field culture attracted considerable interest, growing out of 
the operations of Mr. Sullivan Bates, of Bellingham, Massachusetts. 
In 1846, he succeeded in raising about 400 bushels on an acre. His 
success was considered complete, and the newspapers were filled with 
recommendations, and rules for upland culture. Nurserymen through- 
out New England advertised the Bell or upland cranberry very ex- 
tensively. Mr. Bates’ vines were expressed all over the country, 
and many farmers engaged in the business. 
The following is a portion of an advertisement appearing as late as 
1eGu ss Cranberry Plants for Sale. The subscriber begs leave to 
offer to the public a selection of the finest cultivated cranberry 
plants in the country. They are constantly being received, fresh 
from the cranberry grounds of Mr. Sullivan Bates, of Massachusetts, 
a comprise the beautiful Bell variety, so celebrated for upland. 
* * * * Having taken the general agency for supplying to 
any extent these unrivalled plants, he will furnish any quantities, 
