52 ON CRANBERRIES. 



I have no doubt but many trees are condemned by people as not 

 being sufficiently hardy to stand our climate, -which, if taken from 

 nurseries in their immediate neighborhood, or grown by them from 

 the seed, would succeed and do well. 



I doubt if at any time there was ever more interest taken, or more 

 able minds employed on this subject, than at the present ; and it 

 would be superfluous in me even in giving a detailed statement Oi 

 my own manner and method of preparing my land, sowing my seed 

 and working my stocks, as it would be nothing new, merely reiter- 

 ating what has already been published many times, and can easily 

 be found in any of the Horticultural works of the day. 



Yours, respectfully, 



SAMUEL C. PITMAN. 



Woodside, Lynn, September 21st, 1847. 



ON CRANBERRIES. 



The Committee on the subject of Cranberries offer the following, 

 Report : 



There is but one claimant for the Society's premium offered, for the 

 best conducted experiment in the culture of the cranberry. 



Probably the object of the Trustees in appointing a committee on 

 this subject, was cheifly to obtain and diffuse information, in relation 

 to this new department of Agricultural research. It was not to have 

 been expected perhaps, that the claimants would be numerous, when 

 it is recollected that generally, farmers are not among those much 

 given to change. It ought not to be so, but when an enterprise is 

 new, however plenteous the harvest is likely to be, the laborers are 

 apt for a time , to be few. And so indeed have the committee found it. 

 In the month of August, the chairman wrote to each member of the 

 committee, (Messrs. Nichols of Danvers, Haskell of Rockport, North- 

 end of Byfield, and Dole of Georgetown,) requesting them to collect 

 information in relation to the subject and forward it previous to the 

 twentieth of September. The fact that answers were received from 

 only one of these gentlemen, known to take an interest in Agricultu- 



