. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. and althaujrh these rakes tear the vines somewhat, yet the crop is not diminished by raking; on the contrary, it has been increased. Some years ago a gentleman in Massachusetts commenced rak- ing his little patch of one-quarter acre; the first year it produced 12 bushels, the next 18, and the third 25, and so on till his last harvest, when the crop amounted to 65 bushels. This increase is easily account- ed for by the method of gathering with rakes, the pulling up of the vines loosens the ground, and al- though not intended, yet in
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. and althaujrh these rakes tear the vines somewhat, yet the crop is not diminished by raking; on the contrary, it has been increased. Some years ago a gentleman in Massachusetts commenced rak- ing his little patch of one-quarter acre; the first year it produced 12 bushels, the next 18, and the third 25, and so on till his last harvest, when the crop amounted to 65 bushels. This increase is easily account- ed for by the method of gathering with rakes, the pulling up of the vines loosens the ground, and al- though not intended, yet in fact, the raking acts as a partial cul- tivation. Sir Joseph Banks' 1813 Experiment In addition to crediting Henry Hall with cultivating cranberries for the preceding 20 years and men- tioning the method of Sullivan Bates in growing on dry soil, Bos- well referred to "the first account of the cultivation of this fruit we have" as by the late Sir Joseph Banks who "in 1813 produced from a bog 18 feet square 3% Winches- ter bushels, being at the rate of 460 bushels an ; The Sir Joseph Banks referred to was undoubtedly the distinguished English scientist who had been born in London in 1743 and made sev- eral voyages to various parts of the world as a botanist, and then, afflicted with gout, retired to a small villa near Houslow Heath, known as "Spring Grove", where he cultivated flowers and other plants, apparently including the American cranberry. This account, verified by others, makes the experiment of Sir Jos- eph Banks in England contempor- ary, or possibly even earlier than that of Henry Hall, and , by a strange coincidence, exactly the same year as when Thomas Hall as a boy set a few vines by the side Self-Driven Weed Clipper for Cranberry Bogs Save Cost On Your Weeding Headquarters Willow St. Garage BASS RIVER, MASS. of Scargo Lake. However, it was not from the English baronet's ex- periment that cultivation began, and probably very few a
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