THE CRANBERRY. 



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my experiments over several years. The American Cranberry (fig. 389) 

 is grown satisfactorily at Hastings ; and, at one 

 place, by arranging a platform over a river and 

 occasionally flooding the plants. If the plants 

 are too wet they do not flourish, and if they are 

 too dry they do not succeed. Their growth was 

 recommended by Sir Joseph Banks. Not de- 

 spairing of ultimate success, I made three other 

 plantations in 1871. I am afraid the cold tem- 



r . , i-rr i, T^I FIG 780. American Cranoerry. 



perature of our winter is a great difficulty. They 



require peat soil. Up to this time I have not had a single dish 



from their produce, and all my labour has been lost. 



" It were long, 



Too long, to tell th' expedients and the shifts, 

 Which he that fights * * * 



Devises, while he guards his tender trust ; 

 And oft at last in vain." COWPER. 



THE CLOUDBERRY. 



There are two allied species of Cloudberries, the Rubus arcticus and 

 Rnbus Chamcemorus (fig. 390), which have been planted. The first lives, 

 but has not done well. Dr. Fergus, who recently 

 visited Norway, was so kind as to procure me a 1 

 large number of roots of the Norway Cloudberry, 3^ 

 which has an historical interest, having been eaten 

 by Linnaeus when suffering from fever. I have 

 made a deep plantation of peat, and over this I 

 have planted the roots in cocoa-nut refuse, but 

 time only can tell whether they will succeed. 

 The figure is taken from a specimen Dr. Fergus 

 brought over. I have since found the plants on the mountains on 



Don Side, and heard of it in other localities in Scotland. 

 worthy of an attempt to naturalize it in our gardens. 



It is 



