ottakas

Updated: June 6, 2025

Now if you want a proof of the genial influence of the long-continued snow on vegetation, I can tell you that these cranberries ottakas, the French Canadians call them go on ripening through the winter under three or four feet of snow, and are much better and juicier than in October, when they are generally harvested. That cedar swamp ought to be full of them.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement