GROSSULARIEZ. I. Rises. 
to be observed in making a wash for the rest of the trees or 
bushes.” 
J. Machray procured some tobacco and soft or black soap, 
and boiled a quarter of a pound of tobacco with the one pound 
of soft soap in about 18 scotch pints of water ; and kept stirring 
the liquid while boiling with a whisk, in order to dissolve the 
soap ; this liquor, when milk-warm, or so cool as not to hurt the 
foliage, he applied to the bushes with a hand-squirt, in the 
evening, and in the morning found all the ground under the 
bushes covered with dead caterpillars. This practice he con- 
tinued for six years, always when he saw any symptoms of the 
approach of caterpillars. 
J. Tweedie, in the course of any of the winter months, pares 
all the earth from under the bushes to the depth of about 3 
inches, into a flat ridge betwixt the rows; and on the first dry 
day following, either treads, beats, or rolls these ridges, and 
trenches the whole down 14 or 2 spades deep, observing to tread 
the foul earth into the bottom of the trench. 
Forsyth’s method is as follows: “ Take some sifted quick- 
lime, and lay it under the bushes, but do not at first let any of 
it touch the branches or leaves ; then shake each bush suddenly 
and smartly, and the caterpillars will fall into the lime; if the 
bush be not shaken suddenly, the caterpillars, on being a little 
disturbed, will take so firm a hold as not easily to be shaken off. 
After this is done, sift some of the lime over the bushes; this 
will drive down those which may have lodged on the branches. 
The caterpillars ought to be swept up next day, and the bushes 
well washed with clear lime-water mixed with urine; this will 
destroy any caterpillars that may still remain, and also the 
aphides, if there are any on the bushes.” 
Of all the methods for destroying caterpillars mentioned 
above, Gibb’s appears to us the only plan on which any reliance 
can be placed. 
Taking the crop.—“ From gooseberries being useful for dif- 
ferent purposes, both in a green and in a mature state, and from 
the compass of time afforded by early and late sorts, they are in 
season in great request 4 or 5 months in summer, from April 
till September. The early sorts on south walls come in for 
gathering in small green berries for tarts, &c. in April or early 
in May, and attain maturity in June. From common standard 
bushes an abundant supply is yielded in May and June of goose- 
berries in‘a green state; and in proportion as part is reserved to 
ripen, a succession, in full size and maturity, is obtained in June, 
July, and August. Some late kinds, either planted in shady 
situations, or shielded with mats from the sun in their ripening 
state, continue good on the bush till September.” 
Prolonging the crop.—In addition to planting late sorts in 
shady situations, the bushes, whether standards or trained, may 
be matted over when the fruit is ripe, and in this way some of 
the reds, as the Warrington, and the thick-skinned yellow sorts, 
as the Mogul, will keep on the trees till Christmas. 
Forcing.—The gooseberry may be forced in pots or boxes 
placed in pits, or in the peach-house or vinery. The plants in 
pots or boxes, are placed in pits, or in the peach-house in January, 
and has ripe fruit in the end of April, which is sent to table 
growing on the bush. 
Common Gooseberry. Fl. March, April. Britain. Shrub 4 
to 6 feet. 
* Flowers red. 
18 R. speciosum (Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 2. append. 731 3 
shrub bristly and prickly ; spines tripartite ; leaves roundish-oval, 
3-5-lobed, obtuse; peduncles few-flowered; bracteas broadly 
ovate; calyx cylindrical, 4-parted, with erect glandular seg- 
ments ; germens and pedicels beset with glandular bristles. h . H. 
Native of North California and Monterrey, and Mexico. Sweet, fl. 
gard. second ser. t.149. Lindl, bot. reg. vol. 18. with a figure. R. 
VOL. Ill. 
185 
stamineum, Smith in Rees’ cycl. 
R. triacantha, Menzies. R. fuch- 
sioìdes, Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. 
icon. ined. Flowers large, scar- 
let, pendulous, very like those of 
a Fuchsia. Stamens much ex- 
serted ; style long, entire; petals 
cuneate, inserted on the very short 
tube of the calyx, the margins 
involute. Fruit hispid. (f 32.) 
Showy Gooseberry. Fl. May, 
June. Clt. 1824. Sh. 4 to 5 ft. 
19 R. Menzies (Pursh. fl. 
amer. sept. 2. append. p. 732.) 
plant very prickly ; spines tripar- 
tite; leaves cordate, truncate at 
the base, 5-lobed, serrated, wrinkled from veins, clothed with 
pubescence beneath; peduncles usually 1-flowered; calyx cy- 
lindrically campanulate, deeply 5-parted, glandular ; stamens 5, 
inclosed ; style a little exserted ; germens and peduncles prickly. 
h. H. Native of North California, at Port Trinidad. R. férox, 
Smith in Rees’ cycl. The present species and the preceding are 
very showy plants, from their large bright red or crimson glan- 
dular flowers, and may be considered as holding the same rank 
among the gooseberries as R. sanguineum does among the cur- 
rants. 
Menzies’s Gooseberry. 
Shrub 4 to 5 feet. 
Secr. II. Borryca’rpum (from Borpve, botrys, a raceme, and 
kaproc, karpos, a fruit; fruit disposed in racemes). This is an 
intermediate section between sect. 1. Grossuldria, and sect. 3. 
Ribèsia, having the prickles of the former, and racemose flowers 
and small fruit of the latter. R. lacústre, no. 9. ought probably 
to have been placed in this section. 
20 R. Ortenta‘te (Poir. encycl. suppl. 2. p. 856.) plant 
rather prickly ; leaves 3-5-lobed, orbicularly somewhat reniform, 
cut, hairy ; lobes rather deep, obtuse ; petioles hairy ; racemes 
erectish, few-flowered ; bracteas longer than the flowers; style 
bifid at the apex. k.H. Native of Syria. Desf. arb. 2. p. 
88. Flowers greenish yellow: Fruit like those of the currant. 
Eastern Gooseberry. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1824. Shrub 4 
to 6 feet. 
21 R. saxa’tite (Pall. nov. act. petr. x. p. 276.) prickles 
scattered; leaves roundish-cuneiform, bluntly 3-lobed; racemes 
erect; bracteas linear, shorter than the pedicels; calyx flat, sca- 
brous ; petals small, of a livid green colour. k. H. Native of 
Siberia. Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 239. R. alpinum, Sievers in 
Pall. nord. beytr. 7. p. 345.? Flowers small, greenish purple. 
Petals spatulate. Berries smooth, globose, bractless, dark pur- 
ple, when mature full of edible pulp, rarely so large as common 
currants, and like them. 
Rock Gooseberry. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1819. 
5 feet. 
22 R. piaca’ntHA (Lin. fil. suppl. p. 157.) prickles twin, sti- 
pular; leaves cuneiform, tripartite, quite glabrous, shorter than 
the petioles ; lobes toothed ; racemes long, erect; flowers on 
long pedicels ; bracteas length of flowers; sepals roundish, yel- 
lowish ; petals small, roundish. h, H. Native of Dahuria and 
Siberia. Berl. l. c. t. 2. f. 8. Pall. fl. ross. 2. p. 36. t, 66. 
append. no. 79. t. 2. f. 2. Berries about the size of currants, 
red, of a sweetish acid taste. 
Two-spined Gooseberry. Fl. May, June. 
4 to 5 feet. 
Secr. III. Rree'sta (an alteration from Ribes). Shrubs un- 
armed (f. 33.). Racemes for the most part many-flowered (f.33.). 
Leaves plicate. Calyx campanulate (f. 33. b.), or cylindrical. 
B B 
Shrub 4 to 
Clt. 1781. Shrub 
