COREESPOI^DElSrCE, 



LETTER I. 



Eev. B. Eastwood : — Your letter, asking questions 

 in regard to planting and raising cranberries, is now 

 before me, and sliould liave liad an earlier reply but 

 for my absence from home. 



1. The location I chose was peat swamp ^ thickly 

 grown with what are called whortleberry bushes, and 

 other wild shrubs. I cleared the bushes and turf clean 

 to the peat. If any turf is left, rushes and other wild 

 stuff will get in. Planted the vines in the fall. If 

 planted in the spring on peat they would suffer from 

 the drought of summer, and very likely many of them 

 would die. Peat bottom is very wet and muddy in 

 the spring, and bad for setting the vines ; while in the 

 fall the surface of the ground is dry, and the process 

 is performed comparatively easy. 



2. I flood minC; otherwise they would be very likely 

 to be thrown out of the ground by the frost, particu- 



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