ESSAY ON THE CRANBERRY. 113 



[Here the manuscript contains quotations at considerable length 

 from various authorities, to prove, which they do successfully, that 

 many trees and other plants which naturally grow only in wet and 

 peaty soils, have been successfully cultivated on high and even dry 

 'grounds, and both the quality and productiveness thereby improved, 

 and the inference legitimately drawn therefrom is, that there is 

 nothing impossible — nay nothing improbable 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 Botany, page 

 95th ; Dr. Walker ; the London Encyclopaedia, article on Garden- 

 ing ; Dr. Underhill, Patent Office Reports, 1845, page 431 ; which 

 on account of their length, and the unusual quantity of matter for 

 the pamphlet, are by the consent of the author omitted. 



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

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

 berry 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 infer- 

 ence 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 cranberry, 

 and as they usually grow in wet ground, we lately noticed particu- 

 larly 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 examimng 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 Farmer's Club, during which Gen. 

 Chandler presented cranberry plants "with their great crop of fruit, 

 &c.," raised by Mr. Sullivan Bates, of Beilingham, Mass. He 

 stated that "it was produced by his new method, transplanting 



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