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land and labor, with, interest for four years, cost about 

 $1.25 per rod. This, as will be seen, gives a good 

 profit ; but the cranberry crop is uncertain, unless in 

 situations where they can be flowed in winter and kept 

 moist. 



"Yarieties. — The folly of asserting that there is 

 but one variety of the cranberry, can only be equalled 

 by asserting that there is but one variety of the apple, 

 the pear, or the potato — the former maintaining their 

 peculiar forms, colors, and times of ripening, as dis- 

 tinctly as either of the latter; the large white cran- 

 berry, on which there is nothing but a faint blusli 

 (some of them being entirely white), growing side by 

 side with the small and entirely red berry, that is never 

 one-quarter as large. So with many other kinds. In- 

 deed, they vary in form much more than many distinct 

 varieties of the apple. 



" I have a large variety on my meadow, by getting 

 the vines from all the wild bogs in the vicinity. I 

 have several kinds growing in separate beds, and have 

 marked several other kinds, which I intend to set by 

 themselves in the spring. I have twenty varieties 

 put up for " The American Institute Fair." — Edmund 

 Bagley, in Journal of Commerce. 



[Note. — Some producers are not prepared to admit 

 that there are more than two or three varieties of the 



