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fruit is extensively grown, they have two varieties differing in 

 size and season, one early, but rather small, and the other larger 

 and later. The small berry is heavy, being mostly solid, while 

 some of the larger and more showy fruit is hollow, and shrinks 

 more in cooking. The Cape cranberry is high-colored, keeps 

 well, and commands the highest price in market. The extra 

 color is probably owing to climatic influences peculiar to that 

 particular locality more than to any difference in variety. The 

 American cranberry is larger than the European, of much supe- 

 rior flavor, and of a darker color. 



It is very important in selecting plants to obtain those that 

 are productive. Many bogs yield very little fruit, and that of 

 an inferior quality, being wanting in size and color. All such 

 plants should be rejected. It will pay to examine different 

 meadows in the fruiting season, and make a selection of plants 

 from such as produce large crops of the most attractive fruit. 

 The first inquiry of the purchaser is sure to be, Are the berries 

 large and high-colored? 



SETTING THE PLANTS. 



The best time for transplanting is in May or June. The rows 

 should be straight, and some are particular to have them run 

 both ways, and mark off the bed into check-rows, with a com- 

 mon garden-marker. The plants are set from one to two feet 

 apart each way : the nearer they are set the sooner they will 

 cover the ground. 



The bed should be kept clean for at least three years, by 

 which time the vines will have become so thick as to choke out 

 all other vegetation. The labor of cultivation will be somewhat 

 expensive, but when the rows are straight, a small hand cultiva- 

 tor or slide hoe can be run very close to the plants, and save 

 much hand-weeding. 



The vines strike root from every joint that touches the ground, 

 and in setting, the plants are simply pressed into the sand, quite 

 down to the peat, by any blunt implement, and the sand made 

 firm around them. Pieces of vine, only a few inches long, may 

 be planted, three or four in a hill, at each angle where the check- 

 rows cross, and will take root and grow as well as entire plants. 

 As the cranberry is inclined to trail, it should be set at an incli- 



