. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fruitings of Cross Breeding Seedlings Evaluation Dr. F. B. Chandler, Assigned to New Jersey to Take Charge of This Important Project — Plants Picked This Fall in Three States A most important and promis- ing advancement for the cranberry industry is now at a stage where some definite progress with tangi- ble resu'ts is being obtained. This is the cranberry cross-breeding project, begun in New Jersey in 1929. From this are being devel- oped the first truly "cultivated" cranberries, in the sense that the varieties will have
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fruitings of Cross Breeding Seedlings Evaluation Dr. F. B. Chandler, Assigned to New Jersey to Take Charge of This Important Project — Plants Picked This Fall in Three States A most important and promis- ing advancement for the cranberry industry is now at a stage where some definite progress with tangi- ble resu'ts is being obtained. This is the cranberry cross-breeding project, begun in New Jersey in 1929. From this are being devel- oped the first truly "cultivated" cranberries, in the sense that the varieties will have been brought forth through the controlled ef- forts of man with the parents of these varieties known. All present varieties of cran- berries, as is generally known, are but wild strains, sekcted and pro- pagated or "developed" under more favorable conditions than in the natura^ locations where the wild cranberries grew. This work is now in charge of Dr. F. B. Chandler, who has been assigned to New Jersey by Dr. W. W. Aldrich, of the Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Indus- try, Soils and Agricultural Engi- neering, Agricultural Research Ad- ministration, United States De- partment of Agriculture. Dr. Chandler, horticulturist, is at Pem- berton to carry this major work to a conclusion. Seedlings which have been plant- ed in that state, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and at the Washington State cranberry station have borne sufficient fruit for evaluation. This is now being done, with the pro- ject headed up by Dr. Chandler. More Than 2,000 Plants Picked More than 2,000 plants had been picked of their cropping in New Jersey this fall by Dr. Chand- ler, nearly 5,000 of 8,000 planted having fruited in that state alone, with other picking in the other states. This cross-breeding project, be- gun in 1929 when the late Charles S. Beckwith of the New Jersey cranberry sub-station, and Mr. H. Eigrht "^"^i^^ DR. F. B. CHANDLER F. Bain
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