Transactions - American Horticultural Society (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Second Day?Thursday. Afternoon Session, January 15 At 2:30 P. M., President Earle called the meeting to order. A large number of delegates having arrived since the preceding meeting, the representatives now present include prominent horticulturists from almost every State and Territory in the United States, together with many foreign countries. Mr. P. M. Augur, of Connecticut, being present, was called upon to read a paper on Cranberry Culture. THE CRANBERRY. BY P. M. AUGUR, OF CONNECTICUT. The multiplicity of fruits given by Divine Providence is a wonderful illustration of loving favor to the human family, and strikingly so the cranberry. It occupies a nich by itself, crowding out no other, but of and for itself holding a place occupied by no other and that can be filled by no other, in its own realm. It reigns alone. The cranberry thrives best where other fruits would hardly grow. It is most beautiful, a most excellent appetizer, a great delicacy, and in a sanitary relation ranks high, and its power to keep and bear transportation from one clime to another commends it to lovers of that which is good all through our country and beyond. It then becomes a practical question where and how we can best raise it? Nature has in part answered this question for us. But only in part. This much we know, it loves a velvety, peaty soil, where pure spring water is abundant. And the secret of success with the cranberry we regard in great measure in introducing the best varieties to a perfectly congenial home and in devoting such attention to them as shall make them pleased and satisfied with their home. What is the place, then, for the cranberry? 1. A peaty bog, as before mentioned, having a copious supply of good, pure spring or brook water, sufficient to flood...