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84 CORRESPONDENCE. filled with earth. If they are set in a bunch in the middle of the hole, and the soil placed or filled in close around them, it keeps them too close or compact to do well. 3. My cranberries that I depend on are surrounded by wood and brush, so that they are not exposed to winds and are warm; such a situation,! think, is much to be preferred to one that is cold and bleak. 4. I flood my premises at the time the worm makes its appearance, and no other time. Yours in great haste, Cyrus Cahoon. December 3d, 1855. LETTER III. Dear Sir:—In reply to your inquiry regarding my success in cultivating a certain piece of cranberry ground, which I have selected near the sea-shore and by a sandy pond, where the tide had in previous years flooded it with salt water during heavy storms, I would say: I commenced stopping out the water by throwing up dikes; after which I planted a few vines near the pond. The next summer the vines most of
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 | 00000106 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | 84 CORRESPONDENCE. filled with earth. If they are set in a bunch in the middle of the hole, and the soil placed or filled in close around them, it keeps them too close or compact to do well. 3. My cranberries that I depend on are surrounded by wood and brush, so that they are not exposed to winds and are warm; such a situation,! think, is much to be preferred to one that is cold and bleak. 4. I flood my premises at the time the worm makes its appearance, and no other time. Yours in great haste, Cyrus Cahoon. December 3d, 1855. LETTER III. Dear Sir:—In reply to your inquiry regarding my success in cultivating a certain piece of cranberry ground, which I have selected near the sea-shore and by a sandy pond, where the tide had in previous years flooded it with salt water during heavy storms, I would say: I commenced stopping out the water by throwing up dikes; after which I planted a few vines near the pond. The next summer the vines most of |
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