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places we value the most, as the vines run over the 

 gi'Dund so as to cover it, in &om two to three years, when 

 set three feet apart, in hUls, and will pay from twenty- 

 five to fifty per cent, on all investments in land, where 

 it does not reqtdre much expense to remove the land 

 to a suitable distance from the water. 



Yours respectfully, 



E. Ceowell. 

 New Yoee, December 7, 1855. 



LETTER VI. 



Deae SiE:— In answer to your request for some 

 account of my experience in the production of the 

 cranberry, I will say, that some ten years since I was 

 encouraged (from the success of some of my neigh- 

 bors in the cultivation of the cranberry), to try the 

 experiment on a small spot of ground, very near the 

 sea-shore, in a hollow, where the water in the winter 

 and spring stood to the depth of a foot in the deepest 

 part. It generally dried away by June. I had pre- 

 viously drained and sowed it down to grass, in plough- 

 ing for that purpose, I had discovered some two or 

 three vines which stretched out before the. plough to 

 the length of six feet or more, which I thought indi- 

 cated a favorable location. 



