in dry Beds. By Robert Hallett, Esq. 485 

 bed was covered with the plants, and the runners of the 

 former year had thrown out a number of upright bearing 

 shoots, from which, last year, I gathered several bottles of 

 excellent fruit, much superior in flavour to any imported 

 berries I have ever tasted, fn the autumn of 1820, I had 

 the satisfaction to see the entire bed filled so completely 

 by the plants, as to form a mass through which scarcely a 

 weed could penetrate, the whole exhibiting a profusion of 

 bearing branches, which are now (May 1821) putting forth 

 such an abundance of blossoms as not only to make a very 

 handsome appearance, but to promise a supply of berries 

 far exceeding my expectations, On the margin of each 

 side of the bed, I planted a double row of Bilberry or 

 Whortleberry plants* (Vaccinium Mijrtillus), which are equally 

 thriving, and full of blossoms. 



The cultivation of the American Cranberries, as practised 

 at Spring Grove, must be very limited, for few persons have 

 pieces of water which they could conveniently appropriate 

 to that purpose ; but by following my method an ample 

 supply may be obtained at little trouble or expense, when- 

 ever a bed of peat earth can be formed. 



The plants, after the first supply, may easily be propa- 

 gated to any extent that may be required, for though they 

 root more freely under glass, yet a hot-bed is not absolutely 

 necessary to raise them. I have known the cuttings strike 

 well, and make good plants in pots in the open air, and 

 after being rooted they require no trouble to preserve them. 

 One of the boxes of those raised in 1818, has been left ex- 



* These are no ornament to the bed, and were planted in it merely as an ex- 



