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LXXVL On the Cultivation of the American Cranberry in 

 dry Beds. By Robert Hallett, Esq. F.H.S. 



Read June 5, 1821. 



H aving cultivated the American Cranberry with great 

 success, in Devonshire, I beg leave to submit to the Horti- 

 cultural Society a detail of the practice by which I have 

 satisfactorily ascertained that the fruit of this plant may be 

 obtained in dry, as well as in moist situations, to any extent 

 that may be desired ; and since it makes such excellent tarts, 

 and as no other trouble is required to preserve the berries 

 for winter use, than putting them into dry bottles, and 

 corking them up close,* I trust this communication will be 

 acceptable. 



In April 1814, I procured four plants of the American 

 Cranberry, (Vaccinium macrocarpon), the kind cultivated 

 by the late Sir Joseph Banks at Spring Grove, whose 

 method, as given in the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society ,f I followed, placing them in a small bed over part of 

 a pond which was fenced off. These plants nourished, and 

 produced me some very fine fruit, which I found so useful 

 that I was induced to attempt to obtain if possible a larger 

 supply; but not having another piece of water, which I 

 could conveniently devote to this purpose, I resolved to try 

 to grow them on a dry bed. 



* Those berries keep best which are not over-ripe when gathered, 

 f Volume i. page 75. 



