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62 BLOSSOMING TIME—PRECAUTIONS. and it is rarely or ever found on the runners, but in variably on the spears or stems which are thrown up from the creepers. There are about this time some precautions required; but they are more needed in some parts of the country than in others. Districts in which there are cranberry yards, which are liable to be visited by frost late in the spring, call for especial care from the cultivator. If his vines blossom too soon, they will most probably be killed by the frost, or at most he will have but a scanty crop. The vines may, in the blossoming season, present an abundance of flowers, and a night of frost cut them off. In other regions where they are not so likely to suffer from this cause, the same precautions are not demanded. Here, and in cases of the kind just named, the advantage of flooding is apparent. Those who can flood their vines, can retard the blossom, or keep it back until they think their vines are not likely to suffer by frost. The practice generally followed is, to keep the water over the vines till the last of May or middle of June, and then draw it off. The sooner the water is drained from the yard, the vines will blossom all the earlier for it; but that would be no advantage when frost has not entirely disappeared from that locality
Title | A complete manual for the cultivation of the cranberry |
Creator | Eastwood, B. |
Publisher | Orange Judd |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | 1856 |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000080 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | 62 BLOSSOMING TIME—PRECAUTIONS. and it is rarely or ever found on the runners, but in variably on the spears or stems which are thrown up from the creepers. There are about this time some precautions required; but they are more needed in some parts of the country than in others. Districts in which there are cranberry yards, which are liable to be visited by frost late in the spring, call for especial care from the cultivator. If his vines blossom too soon, they will most probably be killed by the frost, or at most he will have but a scanty crop. The vines may, in the blossoming season, present an abundance of flowers, and a night of frost cut them off. In other regions where they are not so likely to suffer from this cause, the same precautions are not demanded. Here, and in cases of the kind just named, the advantage of flooding is apparent. Those who can flood their vines, can retard the blossom, or keep it back until they think their vines are not likely to suffer by frost. The practice generally followed is, to keep the water over the vines till the last of May or middle of June, and then draw it off. The sooner the water is drained from the yard, the vines will blossom all the earlier for it; but that would be no advantage when frost has not entirely disappeared from that locality |
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