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Beauty), C. B. Lakin (Garnet Chili), Wm. T. Rolfe (Garnet Chili), 

 P. II. Brown (EarlyHose and another variety), Moses 11. Hussey, 

 North Berwick, (Snow-flake). 



Gratuity, to A. S. Sweetser, for Butman squash, $2. 



Other entries, of articles not embraced in the premium list, were 

 made as follows : Kendall & Whitney, Allen's beets ; A. S. Saw- 

 yer, Egyptian beets, onion sets ; William T. Rolfe, beets; J. W. 

 Merrill, mangolds ; J. B. Brown, London flag leeks, green curled 

 Endive ; P. 11. Brown, salsify, mangolds, egg plants ; William L. 

 Pool, Cavendish Tobacco plant. 



Statements by Exhibitors of Cranberries. 



I. By Seward Dill, Phillips. " These cranberries were grown 

 on a muck bog — the turf taken off and a light coat of sand spread 

 on the muck ; then trenches made, three inches deep, two and a 

 half feet apart. The vines were placed along the trenches und 

 set by hand ; after this another light coat of sand spread. Varie- 

 ties, ' Bugle' and ' Bell.' Vines obtained from Hancock county, 

 this State, and from Minnesota." 



II. By Otis L. Carter, Etna. " The land was cleared of timber, 

 then ditched, — the vines set out and the land sanded four inches 

 deep. Flowed in winter." 



III. By C. S. RoBBiNS, Winthrop. "The cranberries that I 

 exhibit were grown on one-eighth of an acre of bog or muck soil, 

 prepared six years ago, by draining and removing turf, and plant- 

 ing the vines in rows three feet apart. After cultivating two 

 years, water was made to stand on the plat by closing the drain 

 in the fall and opening it in spring. In a portion of the plat the 

 vines have subdued the grass and are loaded with fruit, but where 

 the water has stood deepest in winter, a coarse, rank grass has 

 subdued the vines. The water is supplied by rains by means of 

 surface drainage, — no brook or spring in the lot. This is the first 

 year that my crop can be reckoned by bushels, with the promise of 

 yearly increase." 



IV. By Milton Dyer, Cape Elizabeth, " The land is a natural 

 basin on a high ridge, which is filled with water in the fall and 

 spring. In most seasons it would be dry enough for corn after 

 the 25th of May. The land was ploughed in September, about 

 twelve years ago, harrowed, and vines set out, three feet by two 

 feet, with a small quantity of earth attached to the roots. On a 

 part of this the vines are a complete mass, ten inches thick. Shall 

 have to clear them out. The rest have done quite well in favorable 

 years." i 



