12 CKANBEKRY CULTITEE. 



that the Cranberry will grow where nothing else will. It 

 explains, too, how it is that it seems to require little for its 

 perfect development but air and water." 



The American Cranberry is divided, by writers upon 

 this subject, into three varieties. 



1st. The Bell Cranberry (fig. 1). This variety is so 

 named because of its resemblance to a bell in shape. 



,2d. The Bugle Cranberry (fig. 2), was so called from 

 its resemblance to a bugle bead, being elongated, and ap- 

 proaching in shape to an oval. 



3d. The Cherry Cranberry (fig. 3) is spherical in form, 

 and somewhat similar in shape, size, and color to the 

 cherry, from which it derives its name. 



These varieties are to be known only by their fruits ; 

 the difference in the appearance or growth of the vines 

 being insufficient to distinguish them. Although the dif- 

 ferent forms, previously described, are distinct, and well 

 marked, one plant producing one variety only, yet cran- 

 berries are found existing in all the intermediate shapes 

 between these ; for instance, the Bell and the Cherry cran- 

 berries are distinctly marked, but many specimens are 

 found bearing so much resemblance to both, that one 

 could not tell to which variety they belonged. 



There are, apparently, different varieties of vines also, 

 some being lower and more trailing than others, but even 

 these low vines produce fruit of various qualities. The 

 largest cranberries we have yet seen being about one 

 inch in diameter belonged to the Bell variety, and were 

 grown upon vines of this character, originally obtained 

 from a natural bog by John Webb. 



Other characteristics exist beside the shape of the fruit, 

 characteristics which are much more important, to be 

 observed by the grower ; for instance, if one goes into 

 the market with the view of selling a lot of cranberries, 

 tha question is not What shape are they ? but rather, 

 Are they well colored f or, Are they of good size? 



