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probable — in the supposed fact, previous to any experiments, that 

 the cranberry may be removed to upland soils, and there grow 

 luxuriantly, bearing more abundantly, fruit of more excellent 

 quality. These quotations are from Turner's Letters on Sacred 

 History, pages 91, 95 and 157; J. Smith's Introduction to Bot- 

 any, page 95 ; Dr. Walker ; the London Enclycopsedia, article 

 on Gardening.] 



The Albany Cultivator, vol. 9, page 93, informs us, on the au- 

 thority of Loudon, that Sir Joseph Banks, who obtained the 

 cranberry from America, raised, on a square of eighteen feet, 

 three and a half bushels, equal to 460 bushels to the acre ; and 

 the Boston Cultivator informs us, that it was in the garden of 

 Sir Joseph, that the berries grew. Nothing is said of the use of 

 water. The inference is as fair that it was not used as that it 

 was. 



Mr. Cole, of the Boston Cultivator, April 5, 1845, remarks as 

 follows : " We have seen cranberries flourish well on land that 

 was sufficiently dry to produce good potatoes ; the soil a black 

 loam." 



In the Cultivator of Sept. 13, 1845, Mr Cole observes : "As 

 we have had so many inquiries on the cultivation of the cran- 

 berry, and as they usually grow in wet ground, we lately no- 

 ticed particularly a spot that was remarkable for an abundance 

 of excellent fruit, by the side of a piece of water, which was on 

 good tillage land. On examining the soil, we found that it was 

 a dark sandy loam, and we are informed that, beneath a few 

 inches of the dark loam, was a white sand." 



The Patent Office Report, for 1845, pp. 430 and 431, contains 

 a discussion in the New York Farmers' Club, during which, 

 Gen. Chandler presented cranberry plants " with their great crop 

 of fruit, &c.," raised by Sullivan Bates, of Bellingham, Mass. 

 He stated that " it was produced by his new method, trans- 

 planting from low grounds to high. "His success," said Gen. 

 C., "was complete; he gathered from one acre about four hun- 

 dred bushels of cranberries in one season." The chairman spoke 

 of an experiment of his own. He said he "took from swamps 

 on Gen. Johnson's place, some cranberry plants, and planted 

 them on ground eighty or a hundred feet above the swamp ; they 



