APPENDIX. 113 



MR. AUGUSTUS H. LELAND'S METHOD OF CRANBERRY 

 CULTURE. 



Gentlemen: — Tlie piece of cranberry meadow to 

 wliicli I invite your attention, contains about three- 

 quarters of an acre. The mud and peat is deep, and 

 the plat rests on a light layer of sand, and under that, 

 as near as I could ascertain, at one point a clayey 

 gravel. There were four or more kinds of grass upon 

 this piece which had been cut off yearly ever since 

 my rememberance. 



The first of these grasses is called carex filiforniis — 

 a kind of sedge-grass, which passes by the name of 

 water-grass — grew upon the greater portion of this 

 piece. Another kind is the carex stricta^ a kind of 

 sedge-grass called hassock-grass, and also a narrow- 

 leaved sword-grass. The third kind, carex locustris, a 

 kind of sedge-grass with broad leaf, and is called broad - 

 leaved sword-grass. The fourth kind is scripus erio- 

 'pJiorum^ the true name being wool-grass, called the 

 broad-leaved sword-grass and also broad-grass. These 

 grasses I shall allude to in my experience which will 

 be annexed to this statement. 



In the autumn of the year 1838, I think, with a 

 cast-iron shovel gi^ound sharp and put in good cutting 

 order, I removed squares or sods of the turf from the 

 ground, one side of these squares nearly correspond- 



