Excerpt from A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry Every one connected with agricultural pursuits in this country, must be aware that there exists at present considerable anxiety respecting the best modes of cultivating the cranberry. Having been attracted to this subject, I paid particular attention to it, and instituted a series of investigations, with special reference to raising the berry as an article of commerce. In these, I was materially assisted by some of the most successful growers in the country, whose yards I visited, and whose experiences I received from their own lips. The results of these investigations I partially embodied in a series of letters which were made public through the columns of the New York Tribune, arid so great was the attention they excited, and so many letters asking for further information were forwarded to me, that I concluded to embody my own experience, and that of others on the subject, in the manual which is w before the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.