. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Spray and train at Cranguyma. (CRANBERRIES Photo) money they were picked by hand. Next, a vacuum picker was tried. Now the berries for the fresh mar- ket are water scooped with Wis- consin ralces and dried in a wind tunnel. Berries for the cannery are harvested in the water with a Fish harvester, which is much cheaper than scooping. The vac- uum picker is used occasionally to harvest berries produced in the railroad tracks. Rhododendron Program One of the most spectacular and important aspects of "Cranguy- ma" is the rhod
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Spray and train at Cranguyma. (CRANBERRIES Photo) money they were picked by hand. Next, a vacuum picker was tried. Now the berries for the fresh mar- ket are water scooped with Wis- consin ralces and dried in a wind tunnel. Berries for the cannery are harvested in the water with a Fish harvester, which is much cheaper than scooping. The vac- uum picker is used occasionally to harvest berries produced in the railroad tracks. Rhododendron Program One of the most spectacular and important aspects of "Cranguy- ma" is the rhododendron program, the visible aspects inncluding a vast lathe house, 240x90 feet, at- tendant sashhouses, and other buildings and the outdoor nursery blocks. In these buildings are many thousands of the plants being- grown. New varieties, mostly .from England, and Holland, are piopagated by cuttings or by graft- ing. The various species from which these varieties were derived grow in the mountains and on the hillsides of Tibet and western China. Certain species of rhodo- denron, also, incidentally are native to the Pacific Northwest. Nine or ten thousand leaf cut- tings are made each year, of which seven or eight thousand will survive. After two years a cut- ting has grown into a budded plant, large enough to sell, al- though there is a wide variation in the rapidity of the growth of the plants. The plants are grown in the sandy, peaty soil at the edge of the cranberry bog. In addition to the rhododendrons, the sashhouses at "Cranguyma" house many beautiful plantings of tuberous begonias and other flow- ers. Supervisor is Dr. Clarke "Cranguyma" is under the direct supervision of J. Harold Clarke as general manager, Dr. Clarke hav- ing gone out to the West Coast from New Jersey in 1946. The rhododendron plants are of vital interest to Dr. Clarke. Last year he, with Mrs. Clarke, attended the international Rhododendron confer- ence in England, visiting Scotland
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