. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 568. Cranberry-picking scene on a Cape Cod boB. In the upper corner is a bog in fiUl flood (in winter). In the lower is the flume or outlet dam. swamp growth, or by "drowning," which is deeply flooding the p
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 568. Cranberry-picking scene on a Cape Cod boB. In the upper corner is a bog in fiUl flood (in winter). In the lower is the flume or outlet dam. swamp growth, or by "drowning," which is deeply flooding the place for a year. The method of preparing the surface for receiving the plants varies in different regions. Open ditches are run through the place in sufficient number to carry off the surface water. They are usually made 2 to 4 feet deep. If some water stands in them during the summer, better results are expected. These ditches usually feed into one main or central ditch; and this main ditch is preferably the one which, when dammed at its lower end, floods the bog by back- ing up the water. Growers prefer, if possible, to divert a living brook through the bog, or to straighten and deepen one which may exist there ; but in the absence of a brook, a reservoir may lie euiistructed above tile lidj;-. .Sullicient water su|.|.ly shiiulil be had to cu^cr the eutire area from December until April or early May, to a depth of at least one foot. The lower l>Iaces will have a deeper covering, but 4 or 5 feet in places usually does no harm in the winter. It 569. Cranberry hand-picker, also may be necessary to. prices are higher than those received by Mr. Hayden. In the third (1841) and subsequent editions, it is said that "an acre of Cranberries in full bearing will produce over 200 bushels ; and the fruit generally sells, in the markets of Boston, for$ per bushel, and much higher than in former ; It was as late as 1850, however, that Ciaulieri-y culture gained much p
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