So much in request as Cranberries are for household use, it seems strange that no enterprising person has yet undertaken to supply the markets of Canada. In suitable soil the crop could hardly prove a failure, with care and attention to the selection of the plants at a proper season.
The Cranberry forms one of the sub-orders of the heath family (Ericaceæ), and its delicate pink-tinted flowers are not less beautiful than many of the exotic plants of that tribe, which we rear with care and pains in the green-house and conservatory; yet, growing in our midst as it were, few persons that luxuriate in the rich preserve that is made from the ripe fruit, have ever seen the elegant trailing-plant, with its graceful blossoms and myrtle-like foliage.
The botanical name is of Greek origin, from oxus, sour, and coccus, a berry. The plant thrives best in wet sandy soil and low mossy marshes.
| 1 LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM | 2 CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA | 3 CYPRIPEDIUM SPECTABILE |
| (Wild orange Red lily) | (Harebell) | (Showy Lady’s Slipper) |
Nat. Ord. Liliaceæ.—(Gray.)