. Amateur fruit growing. A practical guide to the growing of fruit for home use and the market. Written with special reference to colder climates. Fruit-culture. CHAPTER r. THE CRANBERRY. /i^RANBERRY (Vaccmiutn macrocatpvii.) This is the low trail- ^LU ing cranberry of the swamps ot many of the northern states. The form and habit is well illustrated in figure 43. The so called high bush cranberry is a shrub and is much more widely distrib- uted than this. The latter has one flat seed in each fruit, while the former is a many seed- ed berry. This plant is not adapted to gen- eral cultivation, a
. Amateur fruit growing. A practical guide to the growing of fruit for home use and the market. Written with special reference to colder climates. Fruit-culture. CHAPTER r. THE CRANBERRY. /i^RANBERRY (Vaccmiutn macrocatpvii.) This is the low trail- ^LU ing cranberry of the swamps ot many of the northern states. The form and habit is well illustrated in figure 43. The so called high bush cranberry is a shrub and is much more widely distrib- uted than this. The latter has one flat seed in each fruit, while the former is a many seed- ed berry. This plant is not adapted to gen- eral cultivation, and seldom if ever does well on the prairies of tho West. It may be laid down as a general ru^e that it cannot be suc- cessfully cultivated ex- cept on the granitic soils of the northern states, and that it will be a failure on the lime- â stone drift soils, such as are common to the prairies of Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. In Wisconsin and east- ern and northern Min- nesota it is often very productive, either wild or cultivated, and is an article of much impor- tance in the markets of chose sections each year. Where this fruit 58. Fig. 42 âCrrrnJifirty planf and fruit. One-half ndlural 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 Green, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowdlear), 1859-1910. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing company
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