appearance of a small smooth gooseberry, but its flavour is 
very different. It is entirely destitute of the fiatness which 
is more or less perceptible in even the best gooseberries, in 
lieu of which it has a rich sub-acid vinous rather perfumed 
flavour, which is extremely agreeable. The fruit is rather 
too acid to be eaten raw, but when ripe it makes delicious 
tarts, and would probably form an excellent means of im- 
proving the common gooseberry by hybridizing. 
