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places we value the most, as the vines run over the 

 ground so as to cover it, in from two to three years, when 

 set three feet apart, in hills, and will pay from twenty- 

 five to fifty per cent, on all investments in land, where 

 it does not require much expense to remove the land 

 to a suitable distance from the water. 



Yours respectfully, 



E. CROWELL. 

 NEW YORK, December 7, 1855. 



LETTER VI. 



DEAR SIR: In answer to your request for some 

 account of my experience in the production of the 

 cranberry, I will say, that some ten years since I was 

 encouraged (from the success of some of my neigh- 

 bors in the cultivation of the cranberry), to try the 

 experiment on a small spot of ground, very near the 

 sea-shore, in a hollow, where the water in the winter 

 and spring stood to the depth of a foot in the deepest 

 part. It generally dried away by June. I had pre- 

 viously drained and sowed it down to grass, in plough- 

 ing for that purpose, I had discovered some two or 

 three vines which stretched out before the plough to 

 the length of six feet or more, which I thought indi- 

 cated a favorable location. 



