. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. rather in contrast to placing houses in seemingly haphazard fashion about the countryside by the native Nova Scotians. AKriculture Old So old is aRriculture in the Val- ley at Nova Scotia that there was a grist mill operating in 1606, be- fore the Pilgrims landed at Ply- mouth. Some, considerable actually, of the valley is thin soil. The thrif- ty French, more than 200 years ago, and later the English, threw up great earthen dikes along tidal streams of the Bay of Fundy, with its highest tides in the world. At points in July and Au
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. rather in contrast to placing houses in seemingly haphazard fashion about the countryside by the native Nova Scotians. AKriculture Old So old is aRriculture in the Val- ley at Nova Scotia that there was a grist mill operating in 1606, be- fore the Pilgrims landed at Ply- mouth. Some, considerable actually, of the valley is thin soil. The thrif- ty French, more than 200 years ago, and later the English, threw up great earthen dikes along tidal streams of the Bay of Fundy, with its highest tides in the world. At points in July and August, ex- tremes range from 46 to 90 feet in fall. Behin<l these dikes along the streams with shiny, clay banks, where boats at low water lay on dry land, silt filled in, making rich pasture land. It is odd to go rid- ing by auto over lands which did not exist until made by man. This year New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are having a major obsei-v- ance, the Bicentennial Celebration of the Acadians, and P. E. I., also the Centennial of Charlottetown. capital of this small Dominion. How far back in history goes the use of the cranberry in the Maritimes nobody seems to know. A cursory research in history books failed to reveal any early references to the fruit. Beyond doubt, the first users were the Micmac Indians, now mostly in reservations, who were the abor- igines of Nova Scotia, as did the Red Men in evei-y natural cran- berry district. Wild Berries Still Abundant Wild cranberries were abun- dant along the streams, meadows, ponds and the seashore as they still are. Mr. Eaton writing in "Cranberry Culture", a publication of the Dominion of Canada De- partment of Agriculture says: "To most people the word 'cran- berry' suggests two types, the 'high-bush' and the 'low-bush' species. The so-called 'high- bush' cranberry is botanically known as Viburnum triobum. Marsh, of which the well-known snowball, so often used as an or- namental shrub, i
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