. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CRANBERRY GROWING IN MASSACHUSETTS By Henry J. Franklin, Research Professor in Charge of the Cranberry Station Tlie cranberry of commercei is native to North America (Mily, aUhoueh a closel\' related s])ecies- grows in northerii Pairupe and Asia. Tliat s]jecies, liuwever, lias sucli small berries that it is not suitable for cultiva- tion. Our American craidterry is grown a little in Holland and but extensively (jnly in North . The fruit i> u>ed maiidy in the I'niled .States and Ca
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CRANBERRY GROWING IN MASSACHUSETTS By Henry J. Franklin, Research Professor in Charge of the Cranberry Station Tlie cranberry of commercei is native to North America (Mily, aUhoueh a closel\' related s])ecies- grows in northerii Pairupe and Asia. Tliat s]jecies, liuwever, lias sucli small berries that it is not suitable for cultiva- tion. Our American craidterry is grown a little in Holland and but extensively (jnly in North . The fruit i> u>ed maiidy in the I'niled .States and Canada, no large foreign market liavirig been develoi) Fig. 1. Cranberry Bogs from the Air. The bogs in the foreground look whiter than those in the background because they were partly flooded. C ommercia! cultnatio .Middlesex Count\ a hui has develoi)e(l so that .State, bringing in a gro the cranberry began on Ca])e Cod and in \ears ^o. It paid well from the start and. ruit is now the leading export croj) of the nual return of from $3,000,000 to $.S,()()(),()()(!. Till' industry here, excci)t for a few small bogs, is confined to Middlesex, llnstol, l', MarnMable, Dukes, and Nantucket CMunties, the Plym- outh C'ountx ci'oij hein- more impnrtant than the dlhers, with Carver, I'lymouth, and Wareham the most productive 1. .wnsliii)s. Craidierries are also grown in .\ew Jersey, in Wisconsin, on the oast of ()reL;i>n and Washiniilon, in Nova Sctia, and u Cng Island, these districts being nanu-d in tin- order of their imiiorlance in the industry-. in .Massachusetts, 13,644 acres were under craid)errv cultivation in NOW 7, 9C, 30, 31, 34, 35, and 37; Kigurc's 1 and 40; and to the skill to list- Kiffiire 22. ] yaccin inmmacrocarpon Ait. tlie Hiiroau of Plant Industry of the United States lotographs reproduced in Figures 5 and 6, also for Exchange for the iiholngraiilis in Fig'ures 2, 3, :'raiil)erry ('aimers, Inc., for llic iiliutoKmplis used in .lersey
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