32 LOCATIONS FOE PATCHES. 



A gradual slope is often to be met with, eoming 

 down to the edge of a pond. When such inclines are 

 properly prepared and planted, they make the best of 

 ya]^; and such locations generally have a soU in 

 which the vine will do excellently ; and there is not 

 BO much trouble with them, as the gravel chokes the 

 weed. 



Sheltered and protected positions should be sought 

 after ; situations in which the plants are not likely to 

 receive and meet with the force of the fiercest and 

 stormiest weather. 



Sandy patches of land, or plats, that are near to 

 the sea-shore, which are not liable to be overflowed 

 with the salt water, on Cape Cod, stand high. We 

 have examined many yards that are situated within a 

 few rods of the ocean, only protected from the hardest 

 weather by a small rising in the land, which forms a 

 bank to resist the waves ; and these yards are among 

 the handsomest in the county of Barnstable; and 

 every year these situations are becoming of more value 

 and consequence to the cultivators of the cranberry. 



There are on Long Island, and in New Jersey, vast 

 tracts of beach land which are available, and admirably 

 adapted to the growth of cranberries. Likewise, in 

 the South and West, there are thousands of acres 

 which are better adapted for the production of this 

 fruit than anything else. 



