CHAPTER XIII. 



THE OXYCOCCUS PALUSTRIS, OK, UP- 

 LAND CRANBERRY. 



SINCE writing the previous parts of this manual, I 

 have been favored with communications from Professor 

 Shepherd of the "Western Reserve College, Ohio, and 

 from Mr. Trowbridge of New Haven, Conn., on a 

 recently discovered upland cranberry, and also with a 

 specimen of the fruit gathered from the vine in its un- 

 cultivated condition. 



It has long been desired to adapt the lowland or bog 

 cranberry to the dry, poor, upland soils. Many have 

 made the attempt to do so, but have failed. If the 

 variety now under notice is what it purports to be, I 

 see no reason why it cannot be appropriated by farmers 

 who possess poor land, thereby superseding the neces- 

 sity of wasting efforts on attempts to naturalize the 

 swamp vine to arid uplands. 



Professor Shepherd found the upland cranberry 

 during his recent explorations around Lake Superior. 

 It was growing on the dryest and poorest soils, flourish- 

 ing and producing an abundance of fruit. 



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