14 JOraNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Fiirness Line, to which this boat belongs, receives a subsidy from the 
Canadian Government to run a fortnightly service of steamers. 
Cranberries. 
Around Berwick, Waterville, Auburn, Aylesford, and Cambridge, in 
the middle of the valley, cranberry-growing is fast increasing. Here the soil 
is moist, but not stagnant ; it consists generally of one or more feet of peaty 
soil over sand. In 1896 there were about 200 acres of cranberry bog, 
and in 1897 about 2,500 barrels were raised. They keep well in barrels 
for fully nine months ; when required for shipment they are sorted and 
cleanedby hand or machinery, and sell in London at 2o.s. to 355. per barrel. 
The cranberry beds take four years to come into bearing, and are said to 
Fig. 2. — " Nonpareil " Apple Tree, Corxwallis Rectory, Nova Scotia. 
Probably loO Years Old. 
last about forty years. The crop is said to average about forty barrels per 
acre. The rows are planted 15 to 24 in. apart ; plants 4 or 5 in. apart. 
Once in three years the bogs are sanded about \ in. deep, taking fifty 
two-horse loads per acre. During the winter the plantations are in many 
cases flooded, in order to destroy insects. One company owning a large 
area of cranberry bog which had been badly infested with "fire-worm," 
at the recommendation of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, 
sprayed the plantation with arsenate of lead oz. arsenate of soda in 
1 quart water, | oz. acetate of lead in 1 quart, pouring the two together 
and adding 5 gallons water). This insecticide has been found very 
efifective, and may take the place of Paris green in orchards, as in a trial 
at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, in 1895, the percentage of 
wormy apples (Codlin moth) was even less than where Paris green 
was used. 
