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is much used in pies, puddings, tarts, preserves, &c. The 

 cranberry is a plant of easy culture ; and with but little 

 expense, not a doubt exists that meadows which are now 

 barren wastes, or yield nothing but coarse herbage, might 

 be converted into profitable cranberry fields. According 

 to Loudon, Sir Joseph Banks, who obtained this plant from 

 America, raised, in 1831, on a square of eighteen feet 

 each way, three and a half Winchester bushels, which is 

 at the rate of four hundred and sixty bushels to the acre. 

 A man with a cranberry rake will, in a good cranberry 

 meadow, gather from twenty to fifty bushels in a day ; any 

 meadow will answer. Capt. Henry Hall, of Barnstable, has 

 cultivated the cranberry twenty years. They grow well 

 on sandy bogs after draining ; if the bogs are covered with 

 brush, it is removed, but it is not necessary to remove the 

 rushes, as the strong roots of the cranberry soon over- 

 power them. It would be well if, previous to planting, the 

 .land could be ploughed ; but Capt. Hall usually spreads on 

 beach sand, and digs holes four feet asunder each way, 

 the same distance as for corn; the holes are, however, 

 deeper. Into these holes, sods of cranberry roots are 

 planted, and in the space of three years the whole ground 

 is covered. The planting is usually performed in autumn. 

 Mr. F. A. Hayden, of Lincoln, Mass., is stated to have 

 gathered from his farm, in 1830, four hundred bushels of 

 cranberries, which brought him, in Boston market, $ 400. 

 An acre of cranberries in full bearing will produce 

 over 200 bushels; and the fruit generally sells, in the mar- 

 kets of Boston, for $1.50 per bushel, and much higher than 

 in former years. Although a moist soil is best suited to 

 the plant, yet, with a suitable mixture of bog earth, it will 

 flourish, producing abundant crops, even in any dry soil. 

 There is said to be a variety of cranberry in Russia of a 

 superior size. 



CRANBERRY VIBURNUM. 



(V. oxycoccum.) 



The cranberry tree, or shrub, rises to a very moderate 

 height. The blossoms are white, forming a flat surface 



