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both, instructive and interesting, as it very forcibly 

 illustrates some of the principles laid down in this 

 "Manual." We commend it to the reader, believing 

 that useful hints may be gathered from it, and applied 

 on some lands, to the successful cultivation of the 

 cranberry : 



CRANBERRIES — THEIR CULTIVATION. 



"I chose for the experiment a maple swamj) on high 

 land, containing peat (95-100 vegetable matter) from 

 one to ten feet deep. We commenced draining it in 

 June, 1849, and having set a few vines for trial, we 

 proceeded to cultivate corn and potatoes ; but finding, 

 after two or three years, that we were obliged to keep 

 it too dry for cranberries, we concluded to set it all with 

 vines, in order to flow it, which would injure other 

 cro]3S, and I have now nine acres of vines, mostly set 

 within about three years. My mode of cultivation is 

 as follows, viz. : we clear up the swamp by taking off 

 the top, roots and all, to the depth of one foot or more 

 (which makes excellent manure for the adjoining up- 

 land), and having drained it by ditching, mark out the 

 ground w^ith the corner of the hoe, and set out the 

 vines, which we have obtained from the common wild 

 bogs, wherever we could get them ; and having drop- 

 ped five or six vines in the hoe mark, stamp them in 

 with the heel, and haul on some dirt with the hoe, 



