THE 



CRANBERRY. 



The culture of tlie American Cranberry has become 

 an object of miicji interest and importance. It grows 

 freely and produces its fruit readily in any damp situa- 

 tion. Pare off tlie surface of a swamp or bog-meadow, 

 then cover the surface with a few inches of sand, set 

 out the plants 12 or 18 inches apart, keep them clean, 

 and in two or three years they will cover the surface 

 of the ground, and produce, say 50 bushels the first 

 year, 100 the second, and after that a regular crop of 

 150 to 1:00 bushels per acre. 



They can be raised upon poor uplands by first cover- 

 ing the surface with sand ; set them out and keep the 

 ground free from weeds. Planting can be done from 

 March until middle of May, or from September until the 

 ground freezes. The black cranberry has formerly been 

 considered the best variety, but some new seedlings exhi- 

 bited the past season promise decidedly to surpass it. 



A new work just issued from the prolific agTicultu- 

 ral pubhcation house of 0. M. Saxton k Co., IN ew York, 

 by the Rev. B. Eastwood On the Cranberry," ren- 

 ders a more extended notice unnecessary in this place.. 



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