CRANBERRY.-VACCINIUM 

 MACROCARPUM. 



In Botany, a Genus of the Octandria Monogynia 



Class. 



Tins fruit, which is so much esteemed in 

 tarts, or with cream, is a native of England, 

 and is found growing in the peaty bogs of 

 Sussex, Cumberland, Norfolk, Lancashire, 

 and in other marshy lands. Gerard calls the 

 fruit fen-berries: " they grow," says he, " in 

 fennie places, in Cheshire and Staffordshire, 

 where I have found them in great plentie." 

 Valerius Cord us called them oxycoccon; the 

 Dutch term them fen grapes. 



Dr. Withering states, that at Longton, in 

 Cumberland, there is a considerable traffic 

 carried on in cranberries ; that on the market 

 days, during the gathering season, the sale of 

 these berries amounts to from twenty to thirty 

 pounds sterling per day : many people in 



