CHAPTER VII. 



PLANTINQ VINKS. 



Time for Removing the Vines — Best Time fob Planting — 

 Methods op Planting — Sod Planting — Objections to — 

 Sbpakation op Sod "Vines — How to place the Roots and the 

 Runners — ^Methods of Cutting and Planting — ^Broadcast 

 Method — ^Propagation from the Seed in the Berry — 

 Methods op — Objections to. 



The cranberry vine can be removed from the soil 

 in wliich it bas been cultivated, or from its native 

 swamp, eitber in tbe spring or fall of tbe year. If tbe- 

 vine is taken up and left exposed to tbe winter weatber 

 it is almost sure of being killed, and therefore no one' 

 to wbom tbis fact is known would do so. Tbe vine 

 can be removed from tbe soil and left without earth 

 through the winter under some circumstances. If 

 they are taken up in the fall and left in a moist cqUar 

 until spring, they will, when . planted, take root and 

 do well. "I would as soon have vines left in my 

 cellar through tbe winter, for spring planting, as I 



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