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CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



of culture for the many, that they may sell the more 

 vines. 



There is a plant called the High-bush, or High Cran- 

 berry ( Viburnum Opulus), indigenous to North America, 

 found on uplands in many localities in the Nortl ern 

 States. C. L. Flint says : " It is a beautiful shrub, some- 

 times ten or twelve feet high, having a white blossom, 

 and a fruit somewhat smaller than the common cranberry, 

 perfectly red, and of an acid taste, well adapted for pies, 

 tarts, etc., for which it is often used. The fruit diffei s 

 from the common cranberry in having a small, oblong 

 stone, instead of seeds. It is easily propagated from the 

 seeds, layers, or cuttings, and is often found as a garden 

 shrub, flourishing in every variety of soil, sands and 

 clays, wet and dry. Its berries grow in clusters, and are 

 persistent through the winter." 



The plant called, in Maine, the Mountain Cfnnberry 

 {Taecinmm Vitis-Idcea)^ has leaves shaped like those of 

 our common Cranberry, and bears an acid, fruit, used for 

 the same purposes as our cranberry. It is occasionally 

 met with in Massachusetts, where it is called the ' Cow 

 Berry.' " 



There is still another plant {Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi^ 

 Spreng. Arbutus of Linn.) found in abundance on Ca])e 

 Cod, and there called the Hog Cranberry. It also grows 

 abundantly in the Pine region of New Jersey, where it 

 is known as the Grouse Berry, Upland Cranberry, also 

 Bearberry and Uva-ursi, and in some parts as " Universe," 

 a corruption of Uva-ursi. 



It is not properly a variety of the cranberry, but be- 

 longs to a different genus. Like that plant, however, it 

 is trailing, and has leaves somewhat similar in shape. Its 

 fruit is red, but smaller than the cranberry, and of a dry, 

 mealy nature. Both fruit and leaves are used for me- 

 dicinal purposes ; the latter are also in demand among the 

 inhabitants as a substitute for tea. The plant may be ob- 



