86 COHRESPO^'DENCE. 



LETTER V. 



Dear Sir : — I received yours bearing date of 4tli 

 inst., asking a few questions in relation to my experi- 

 ence in the "culture of cranberries," wbicli is not very 

 extensive ; but have some experience as I have now 

 under cultivation four different lots, one of about 

 three-fourths of an acre; one fine mixed sand of a 

 redish and white^ intermixed with quick sand, which 

 have been set, one-half eighteen, and the other eight 

 months, and have flourished well. 



My second lot was set about eighteen months on a 

 redish sand, with stones, mixed with a clay loam ; this 

 also is doing well. 



My third lot is on a salt meadow^ dyked in, this lot 

 has but a small part been set with vines, as it was 

 found to be too salt, which will kill the vines in mid- 

 summer; the meadow is covered with white beach 

 sand where the vines are set, I think this flourishes 

 the best if the salt is sufficiently soaked from the soil. 

 This I consider my best piece, except a lot lately 

 bought ; the material to set the vines being coarse 

 beach sand, and sufficiently low that water is not too 

 far from the vines in the driest season. 



My opinion is, that the cranberry vine will grow 

 the fastest, and bear the largest and finest fruit on 

 what I call coarse beach sand^ in low, wet soil ; such 



