72 THE GREAT CRANBERRY MARKETS. 



Boston is the great market for cranberries. It is 

 nearest to those regions in which the vine is cultivated, 

 and the fruit-dealers, knowing how much it is sought 

 after, can, by the course they have recently pursued, 

 realize handsome profits upon what they purchase. 

 Of such profit is the cranberry, that growers have 

 been visited by city dealers a month or six weeks 

 before the berry has been ready to pick. They have 

 offered a price which was deemed handsome by the 

 cultivator. Some took them, as they bid for the 

 whole crop, and others refused. Even the last season, 

 growers received from ten dollars to fifteen dollars per 

 barrel. This has been obtained in the Boston market. 



The New York market is said to be good for the 

 cranberry, and this is well known to the Boston dealers 

 who ship the fruit to that port and Philadelphia, and 

 the other great cities of the Union. 



The consumption of the cranberry in the great 

 cities is such that the dealers can realize their own 

 prices, by doing as they did last fall, buy up the berry 

 and get it into their own hands. The wealthy will 

 have the cranberry, and it is immaterial to them 

 whether they pay eight or twenty dollars per barrel. 



The American cranberry is coming into notice in 

 many parts of Europe, but more especially in Eng- 

 land. The way in which it is sold there is in small 

 bottles, into which the fruit is first put, and then filled 



