. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 521.—Bell Cranberry. THE CRANBERRY. Fig. 522.—Bugle Cranberry. The best soil and situation consist of peat and muck bottoms,coated with pure sand obtained from adjacent banks, and theground thus prepared must be capable of being flooded withclear running water at pleasure during winter, and thoroughly-drained at other times, for it is absolutely essential that itshould be dry during the blooming and growing season. Driftsoils have proved unsuc-cessful. Muddy water run-ning over the plants injuresthem. In preparing the soil allwood and rubbish must be
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 521.—Bell Cranberry. THE CRANBERRY. Fig. 522.—Bugle Cranberry. The best soil and situation consist of peat and muck bottoms,coated with pure sand obtained from adjacent banks, and theground thus prepared must be capable of being flooded withclear running water at pleasure during winter, and thoroughly-drained at other times, for it is absolutely essential that itshould be dry during the blooming and growing season. Driftsoils have proved unsuc-cessful. Muddy water run-ning over the plants injuresthem. In preparing the soil allwood and rubbish must becleared off, called turfing,and the surface, or turf,removed with a hoe madefor the purpose. It is thenprovided with drains byclearing out the main water-course and making parallelopen side ditches at regular distances of about two to fiverods. The whole surface is then covered with from four tosix inches of pure sand. The chief object of this coating ofsand is to retard the growth of the vines and thus increasetheir productiveness. An embankment or small dyke shouldsurrou
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