OOHRESFOISrDEISrOE.
JLETTER I.
Rev. B. Eastwood :—Your letter, asking questions
in regard to planting and raising cranberries, is now
before me, and should have had an earlier reply but
for my absence from home.
1. The location I chose was peat swamp, thickly
grown with what are called whortleberry bushes, and
other wild shrubs. I cleared the bushes and turf clean
to the peat. If any turf is left, rushes and other wild
stuff will get in. Planted the vines in the fall. If
planted in the spring on peat they would suffer from
the drought of summer, and very likely many of them
would die. Peat bottom is very wet and muddy in
the spring, and bad for setting the vines; while in the
fall the surface of the ground is dry, and the process
is performed comparatively easy.
2. I flood mine, otherwise they would be very likely
to be thrown out of the ground by the frost, particu-
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OOHRESFOISrDEISrOE.
JLETTER I.
Rev. B. Eastwood :—Your letter, asking questions
in regard to planting and raising cranberries, is now
before me, and should have had an earlier reply but
for my absence from home.
1. The location I chose was peat swamp, thickly
grown with what are called whortleberry bushes, and
other wild shrubs. I cleared the bushes and turf clean
to the peat. If any turf is left, rushes and other wild
stuff will get in. Planted the vines in the fall. If
planted in the spring on peat they would suffer from
the drought of summer, and very likely many of them
would die. Peat bottom is very wet and muddy in
the spring, and bad for setting the vines; while in the
fall the surface of the ground is dry, and the process
is performed comparatively easy.
2. I flood mine, otherwise they would be very likely
to be thrown out of the ground by the frost, particu-
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