WEATHER IN CRANBERRY CULTURE 



Figure 1. Uprights from a Low Area on the State Bog Showing Various Forms of Injury 

 Caused by a Lack of Dissolved Oxygen in the Water During the Preceding 

 Winter-Flooding Period. 



UPPER: Howes Variety — (^1) a normal upright: (2, 3) uprights with retarded flowers; (4) 

 an upright with three flowers killed at a very early stage, the uppermost one visible at the left at 

 the base of the leafy portion of the new growth; (5) an upright with the new growth very much 

 retarded: (6) an upright with the new growth almost entirely suppressed; (7) an upright with a 

 dead terminal bud, new shoot from a lateral bud. Uprights collected June 9, 1941. X 1 1/8. 



LOWER: Early Black Variety — (Da normal upright (from higher ground): (2) one of the 

 best uprights in the low area; (3, 4 5) uprights on which most of the flower buds died immediately 

 after flowering; (6) an upright on which the buds died at different stages of development, the 

 uppermost flower blossomed but failed to set fruit. Collected July 28, 1941. X 1. 



