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6. PKOrAGATiON FROM SEEDS. — If the seeds of 

 the cranberry are sown, they are not always certain 

 of coming up. The situation may be too cold for 

 them, and the seed is destroyed. Seed is often tried, 

 and will send up a small fine spear, but generally is 

 killed after the first year. We have heard it stated 

 by several cultivators that the seed may, under some 

 circumstances, be used, and in the third year the vines 

 raised from them would bear small quantities of fruit. 



The best situations in which to sow the seed of the 

 cranberry are the edges of fresh meadow land ; such 

 places are generally protected, and they seem favor- 

 able, or rather the most favorable situations for propa- 

 gation from seed that are known. 



Some persons who have tried this experiment have 

 put into the soil the whole berry ; few have been found 

 to come up, the seeds have rotted. We tried another 

 plan, which was as follows : we obtained the berry 

 and then broke it in water. The seeds separated from 

 the berry ; these we collected and sowed in the patch 

 prepared for them, and found them to do better than 

 any other method. But raising vines from seed is un- 

 certain, hazardous, and if you succeed, you have a 

 long time to wait for the fruit.* We would not 

 advise seed planting ; from vines and cuttings the best 

 patches are formed. 



* Asa Shiverick, Esq. Joseph Hall, Esq. 



