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slightly augled aud downy ; calyx segments broad, converging ; 

 eye large, closed ; surface waxy, lustrous ; color greenish white 

 with numerous large dots. Fle-h white, coarse, breaking, 

 moderately jircy ; core conical clasping closed ; seeds medium 

 size, plump, brown, few ; flavor inild acid ; quality good, especially 

 for cooking ; season early winter. 



CEAXBEREY CULTUEE. 

 By Eev. N. H. Chamberlain, Monument Beach, 3[:iss. 



The laws of cranberry culture are ijnmutable. You obey these 

 laws and you mske money. You disobt-y them, you lose what you 

 might desire, but what you never had. There is money in it under 

 right conditions ; plenty of it. You know your own soil. Y'ou 

 have one condition in your State — plenty of good, sandy g ound ; 

 and wherever you find cranberries, you will find a light soil. 



In the United States are three localities in which cranberry 

 culture is followed to a large extent ; Cape Cod, being just now 

 the foremost, because it was the cradle of cranberry culture. The 

 three are Cape Cod, New Jersey and Wiseons'n. 



There are three things cranberry culture require which I will 

 put in the order of their value : three conditions immutable are, 

 water first, sand second, and soil third. But they tell me in the 

 State of Maine, that you have got about two or three feet of muck 

 in your lowlands, and clay under it. I do not care for that, if you 

 have soil with two feet of muck, that is all right ; because if the 

 muck food gave out ycu could supply, with fertilizers. Muck is 

 the basis of the soil The three things are water, sand and soil. 

 Have those onditions in your possession and you can raise cran- 

 berries in almost any climate. 



Now let us begin with the soil. Of course, you would say, you 

 have got to have low land for cranberry culture, because you must 

 have water. With us on Cape Cod, I will observe that all the 

 advantage Cape Cod has is, that it has a latitude that somehow 

 gives certain things which distinguish it from other sections of the 

 country. Our berries will weigh more than your berries. I do not 

 know why it is, but our berries will weigh more than New Jer=ey 

 berries. 



