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filled with earth. If they are set in a bunch in the 

 middle of the hole, and the soil placed or filled in close 

 around them, it keeps them too close or compact to do 

 well. 



3. My cranberries that I depend on are surrounded 

 by wood and brush, so that they are not exposed to 

 winds and are warm ; such a situation, I think, is much 

 to be preferred to one that is cold and bleak. 



4. I flood my premises at the time the worm makes 

 its appearance, and no other time. 



Yours in great haste, 



CYRUS GABOON. 

 December Sd, 1855. 



LETTER IH. 



DEAR SIR: In reply to your inquiry regarding 

 my success in cultivating a certain piece of cranberry 

 ground, which I have selected near the sea-shore and 

 by a sandy pond, where the tide had in previous years 

 flooded it with salt water during heavy storms, I 

 would say : I commenced stopping out the water by 

 throwing up dikes ; after which I planted a few vines 

 near the pond. The next summer the vines most of 



