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experiment embraced a tract near the foot of a slope 

 descending in a westerly direction. The ground was 

 ploughed eight inches deep, and harrowed ; light fur- 

 rows, three and a half feet apart, were run lengthwise, 

 and the sods were cut from the swamp, carted on the up- 

 land, and placed three feet apart in the rows (though 

 two would have been better), then carefully hoed and 

 kept free from weeds for two years. No water was 

 supplied except that received from occasional rains." 



Notwithstanding this evidence appears strong and 

 conclusive, yet we believe that the most experienced 

 cultivators regard the experiment as hazardous, and in 

 most cases fatal to the development of the cranberry. 

 "We give the opinion of one of the oldest cultivators 

 on Cape Cod, which is, " that if you plant on the 

 upland it is difficult to raise your vines to bearing per- 

 fection, and it will entail much labor and expense upon 

 him who undertakes it. Guard against the upland 

 mania." Upland planting is regarded as " risky busi- 

 ness ;" it is therefore avoided on Cape Cod, where the 

 management of the vine is better understood than in 

 any other part of America. 



Places in which stagnant water has collected have 

 been selected by some persons, and converted into 

 cranberry patches. It is positively wrong to do this, 

 because the water lodging in the soil having no drain 

 by which it may be drawn off, renders it sodden, cold, 



