. 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. bjects of flooding are as follows: (1)to protect the plants from heaving in winter; (2) toavoid late spring and earh fall frosts (3) to drown in-sect« (4) to protect tn m dr ught (5) to guard againstfire Unless serious t < ntii t, n les arise the bog isflooded only m wmti r \ tl 1 M ^ looks like a lake(Fig 5G8) Good r
. 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. bjects of flooding are as follows: (1)to protect the plants from heaving in winter; (2) toavoid late spring and earh fall frosts (3) to drown in-sect« (4) to protect tn m dr ught (5) to guard againstfire Unless serious t < ntii t, n les arise the bog isflooded only m wmti r \ tl 1 M ^ looks like a lake(Fig 5G8) Good ri uli r It n I now and then indry or upland bo„ «1 i I ii f i flooded but suchbogs ormeadow»rai h „n iiiut im lesuHs and theyare less advised than t rm rh There are thiee centers of Cianberry growing m NorthAmerica—Cape Cod peninsula New Jersey Wisconsin. (If It was in the Cape II I 1 I _ in The first at- I \ William Ken- \ 1 list sa-s s that1 1 I cultivated the I I \ Hajden of Lin-1 11 I tiom his farm in ill 1 I li brought him in 1 il t I n 1 subsequent edi- 1 I II mil It IS not saidI em were wild or all the increase m production, Each has methods pecuCod region that Craultempts were made f irick writing in Ih Capt Henry Hall ICianb iivtwentv \. swamp growth, or by drowning, which is deeplyflooding the place for a year. The method of preparingthe surface for receiving the plants varies in differentregions. Open ditches are run through the place insuflScient number to carry off the surface water. Theyare usually made 2 to 4 feet deep. If some water standsin them during the summer, better results are ditches usually feed into one main or centralditch; 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 diverta living brook through the bog, or to straighten anddeepen one which may exist there ; but in the absenceof a brook, a reservoirmay be co
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