52 PLANTING VINES. 



and consequently growers will continue to make trials 

 and experiments, until they acquire a knowledge of a 

 metliod wliick to them is satisfactory. Various 

 methods have been adopted and pursued with differ- 

 ent degrees of success, which we will now mention : 

 (See Plate No. 6.) 



1. Sod planting. — This is the oldest plan. It was 

 customary in the early days of cranberry culture to 

 cut out a square or oblong sod on which the vine was 

 growing, and then to prepare the yard to receive it 

 just as it was taken up. It was thought that this plan 

 was the best, because the vine did not suffer by such a 

 removal. But experience has taught cultivators that 

 this is not the best mode. There is this forcible objec- 

 tion lying against it. In removing the sod, rank weeds 

 and foul grasses are brought with it, and it has been 

 proved that these grasses and weeds retard the matting 

 process of the vine, and the yard becomes one of 

 weeds and wild grasses rather than of healthy cran- 

 berry plants. If you plant on the Sod System^ it will 

 entail much labor upon you ; for even if you determine 

 upon keeping down this wild stuff, you will find the 

 difficulty to be greater than you anticipated. 



We may safely advise the intending cultivator to 

 guard against the method which has just been de- 

 scribed. Another plan is, 



