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consequently deprives them of a part of their natural 

 flavour. Cranberries are also imported from Russia and 

 Germany ; and during this last year great quantities have 

 been brought from New Holland, which are smaller, and 

 darker coloured, than those brought from America, and 

 very superior in flavour. Cranberries are found growing 

 in many parts of Spain and Hungary. They are the 

 produce of damp swampy lands only ; but the idea that 

 they will not bear transplanting is erroneous, the late 

 Sir Joseph Banks having planted some near a pond in his 

 grounds at Spring Grove, which have produced fruit be- 

 yond calculation. This information may be worth the 

 attention of those who have marshy or brook land, as a 

 matter of profit; and to those who have ornamental 

 water in their gardens or parks, it would be found an 

 embellishment to the banks ; it being an elegant little 

 fruit on the ground, where it trails, and spangles the grass 

 with its red and variegated berries. When transplanted 

 into the garden, they require a moorish or boggy soil, and 

 the bed should be kept about six inches lower than the 

 general surface of the ground, by which means they may 

 be kept in a swamp by a small channel, or temporary 

 shoot from a pump; they will soon cover the surface, 

 and produce fruit abundantly. 



This fruit is now also grown in dry beds : the experi- 

 ment was first made by Robert Hallett, Esq. of Axmin- 

 ster, Devonshire, who in a letter to the Horticultural 

 Society (read 5th June, 1821,) says, " Having cultivated 

 the American cranberry with great success in Devon- 

 shire, 1 beg to submit to the Horticultural Society a 

 detail of the practice by which I have satisfactorily 

 ascertained that the fruit of this plant may be obtained in 

 dry, as well as in moist situations, to any extent that may 

 be desired ; and since it makes such excellent tarts, and 

 as no other trouble is required than putting them into 



