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with mucli less trouble and expense, ?.s tlie plants 

 multiply and increase abundantly. Persons com- 

 mencing witli one or two thousand will be able to ob- 

 tain plants of their own raising sufficient to trans- 

 plant acres in two or three years. 



' ' 2d. Prepare your soil the same as for sowing grain, 

 by plowing, harrowing, and making your soil even — 

 then mark it out in drills, eighteen or twenty inches 

 apart, putting the plants in the drills five or six inches 

 apart — hoc them slighth^ at first, till the roots become 

 clinched, and afterAvards no other cultivation is needed. 

 The plants may be expected to run together and cover 

 the whole soil in two or three years. The cranberry 

 grown by cultivation usually jdelds from 150 to 400 

 bushels per acre ; its fruit is tAvo or three times as 

 large as the wild fruit, and of beautiful flavor ; it 

 readily keeps sound from the harvest time of it to the 

 time of harvest again." — Afaine Farmer. 



LETTER XII. 



Dear Sir : — I have tried the experiment of raising 

 cranberries on the uplands. In the fall of 1852 I set 

 out vines on about one-quarter of an acre of ground, 

 which was on a very high hill, the soil was a gravelly 



