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flourished well for some two years and bore some 

 berries. Then being neglected, the sand blew over 

 them and they soon became extinct. 



In 1840, cranberries bringing a very high price, my 

 attention was again called to their cultivation, I con- 

 cluded to go to work on the same spot and prepare the 

 ground, which I did by removing the sand and levell- 

 ing the ground of about fifteen rods, within six inches 

 of water. I then planted the vines, without the sod, in 

 hills, about two feet apart, in the spring of the year, 

 they grew well, bearing every year but one, when they 

 were overflowed, the water remaining on them until 

 the season for blooming was past, as the pond had then 

 no outlet, but now has. 



I have now three-fourths of an acre set with vines, 

 The soil is coarse sand, and lies on the westerly side of 

 said pond. I have never received any injury from 

 frost, spring nor fall, and have always delayed gather- 

 ing until about the 10th of October, when the fruit 

 would be ripe. I have kept no record of the num- 

 ber of bushels I have gathered, but have taken two 

 and a half bushels from one rod in some years. When 

 I first commenced, I made the ground level, but now 

 I leave it in the form of an inclined plane ; my reason 

 for this alteration is, the land being high, and too 

 much cold water oozing from the ground, which I 

 think is a damage that causes the moss to grow and 



