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looked like rows of onions braided up ; and though it was so heavily 

 loaded the limbs did not bend down. The limbs are all growing 

 upwards, taking up but very little space. So much for the Tetofsky 

 on clay soil. 



I will now tell you a little about the other three trees. They 

 were planted on a deep rich, loamy soil, with the subsoil loosened up ;. 

 ;t soil tliat will raise corn and potatoes to perfection. These trees did 

 not grow the first and second years; they leafed out and looked healthy 

 enough, but did not make any new wood until tlie third year. They 

 are groM'ing quite nicely now, but the whole three trees put together 

 would not make a tree as large as the one in the clay. I took more 

 pains in planting these trees than I did the one in the clay, expecting 

 they would make double the growth in a given time in such fine rich 

 soil. The soil in both cases is very dry, being naturally drained. 



My Glass' Seedling Plum is growing close to these three Tetofsky 

 trees, in the same soil. It grows from four to five feet in one season, 

 so that I am obliged to cut back half its growth to keep it in good 

 shape. I also raise the finest vegetables from this piece of ground, 

 which is sufiicient proof that the soil is rich. It is a mystery to me 

 what could make the tree in the clay grow so much faster than the 

 same kind of trees planted in richer and better soil. Perhaps you or 

 some of the readers of the Horticultueist can explain the mystery. 



CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



We have received numerous enquiries from correspondents relative 

 to the cultivation of the cranberry, in reply to which we submit the 

 following from the Massachusetts Ploughman : — 



Among tlio fruits that grow in New England, there are few if any that 

 will grojv on so great a variety of soils as the cranberry. The most profitable 

 and the best location seems to be a meadow that lias a peat bottom that can 

 be flowed with at least two feet of water during the winter and spring, and 

 be thoroughly drained in the summer. In such location the cranben-y can 

 be grown with as much profit as any other fruit. 



If one has a pond that flows up several feet higher in the winter than 

 in the summer, by filling in the borders with sand a good crop of cranberries 

 can be grown for many years, without any expense after the first two or 

 three years except that of harvesting the fruit. In such locations good crops 

 will grow on four feet of sand, and to our knowledge will continue for more- 

 than twenty-fire years without resetting. 



