. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. Fii;. 17.—PLANTS ON CLEAN AND KOOTY SUUFACES. and if upon the top, they will seriously interfere with the matting vines by keeping tlie runners from rooting. Fig- ure 17 illustrates the difference between a rooty surface and one made pei-fectly clean. Savannas, with sand within reach of the plow, may be very cheaply prepared by throwing the turf, one rod each way, into windrows, and ])lanting vines upon the cleared ground between them. (See fig. 18.) The wash from the decaying turf is found to act as a good fertilizer, and the embankments serve as a protec- =^
. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. Fii;. 17.—PLANTS ON CLEAN AND KOOTY SUUFACES. and if upon the top, they will seriously interfere with the matting vines by keeping tlie runners from rooting. Fig- ure 17 illustrates the difference between a rooty surface and one made pei-fectly clean. Savannas, with sand within reach of the plow, may be very cheaply prepared by throwing the turf, one rod each way, into windrows, and ])lanting vines upon the cleared ground between them. (See fig. 18.) The wash from the decaying turf is found to act as a good fertilizer, and the embankments serve as a protec- =^^h,j*»JlL^aL^)tJc.^^ ite^^v^.,^,,^.^ Fii^. 18.—PLANTING IN STHIPS. tion against the blasts of v/inter, in situations not suscep- tible of being flooded. MiLL-PoNDS. Success in cultivating the cranberry on mill-pond bot- toms depends, perhaps, more upon the location than upon. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Joseph J. New York, Judd
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