304 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



mock auctions and legitimane sales by auction. Nearly all tlie 

 tea sold in this city is by auction. 



The regular subject of the day, viz., " The Neglected Fruits of 

 our Countr3^" 



CRANBERRY CULTURE IN WESTERN NEW YORK. 



Noble Hill, Caton, Steuben county, answers the following ques- 

 tions about cranberry culture : 



" 1st. Are cranberry meadows durable after the vines are firmly 

 rooted ? I learn from a trustworthy source that they have been 

 picked from the same meadows for fifty-nine years. 



" 2d. What soil is best adapted to the cranberry, and how 

 shall it be prepared? A low, spongy soil, one that will retain 

 its moisture throughout the year. The sod, where there is one, 

 should be pared off to a depth sufiicient to remove all roots of 

 grass and weeds. Now open shallow trenches from one and a 

 half or two feet apart, and place the vines in them, covering them 

 every six or eight inches, where they will take root and thus new 

 vines be formed. 



" 3d. Does the soil need enriching, as in the case of other vege- 

 tables ? The cranberry vine does not, like some overgrown annual 

 plants, make heavy drafts upon the soil, but is satisfied to feed 

 temperately wpon w^ater and decaying vegetable matter in it ; 

 from this it will be seen that the soil needs no enriching. 



" 4th. What constitutes a vine ? This question would probably 

 be answered differently by different persons; but vines that I 

 transplant are constituted of a runner, from one to four feet long, 

 with numerous branches and roots ; this is what I call a vine. 



"5th. Can cranberries be successfully transplanted ? For the 

 last four years I have set more or less vines, every spring, and in 

 no case have they failed to do well, growing, in some cases, as 

 far as four feet the first season. 



"Finall}^, I believe there are hundreds, not to say thousands, 

 of farmers throughout the country, who have low, wet lands, that 

 are, and will continue to be, sources of annoyance to their enter- 

 prising owners, until they put them to the use for which nature 

 has fitted them, viz. : cranberry culture." 



GRAPES VARIETIES TO GROW UNDER GLASS. 



Dr. Geo. Pepper Norris, of Wilmington, Del., sends us the fol- 

 lowing list of grapes as the most suitable to grow under glass : 

 " The old Black Hamburg grape stands at the head of the list. 



