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them died, the ground being too salt for them to thrive. 

 In two or three years, however, they sprang up and 

 spread their runners in every direction. 



In 1851 1 commenced carting sand, making as much 

 land in the pond as out, leaving the land on the in- 

 cline towards it. I then planted the vines three feet 

 .apart, in hills, in the spring of the year. The first 

 season I got but little fruit ; the second, four bushels ; 

 the third, seventeen; and this autumn, from thirty 

 rods of land I gathered seventy-one bushels of cran- 

 berries. Eespectfully, 



November 28, 1855. A. CROWELL. 



LETTER IV. 



DEAR SIR: I have a small piece of cranberry 

 ground near the sea shore, the soil is part peat and 

 part beach sand. Those vines that were placed in the 

 sandy soil look well ; have yielded from one bushel 

 to two and a half per rod the past year. Those in the 

 peat soil look very well, but have net been so fruitful 



Yours truly, 



November 27, 1855. JOHN 



