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dull dark red; skin smooth, thin, glaucous, medium in firmness; flesh greenish, moderately- 

 juicy, tender, pleasing in flavor, very sweet; quality very good. 



Hudson. I. Card. Mon. 22:303. 1880. 



Raised by J. H. Ricketts, Newburgh, New York, in the early seventies. It is 

 supposed to be a seedling of an American gooseberry. Plants healthy; fruit large; 

 good. 



Hue-and-Cry. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 131. 1866. 2. TV. Y. Sta. Bid. 114:25. 1897. 



At this Station the plants are medium growers and subject to mildew; fruit large, 

 oblong, pale green, smooth, sweet; good. 



Huntsman, i. TV. Y. Sia. Bui. 114:25. 1897. 



Station plants vigorous, productive, nearly free from mildew; fruit large, oblong, 

 smooth, pale green, sweet; good. 



Industry, i. Rural N. Y. 44:770. 1885. 2. N. Y. Sta. Biil. 114:25. 1897. 



Whinham's Industry. 3. Card. Chron. 3d Ser. 3:597. 1888. 



With Chautauqua, Industry is usually considered the best of the European gooseberries 

 in America. It is one of the most vigorous varieties of its class; rather more productive 

 than any other European; and while by no means free from mildew, it often passes through 

 a season without much mildew, and when infested, the disease is usually readily controlled 

 by spraying. On our grounds the plants are very strong growers, and usually produce as 

 much fruit if not more than those of any other European variety. Many gooseberry 

 growers prefer to have plants from the nursery grown in bush form rather than in tree 

 form. The berries are large, claret-red, rich, sweet, and delicately piquant, and about the 

 best flavored of all the commonlj' grown gooseberries in American plantations. Very 

 often the berries are picked too soon; to be at their best they should be allowed to remain 

 on the plant until full maturity is reached. The chief defect of the variety for American 

 conditions is that it is difficult to propagate, and therefore scarcely obtainable from nursery- 

 men. Industry was raised by Robert Whinham early in the nineteenth century in northern 

 England. It was disseminated in this country by Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, New York, 

 about 1885. The American Pomological Society added the variety to its fruit catalog 

 list in 1 89 1. 



Plants of medium size and density, vigorous, upright, productive, healthy; young 

 shoots mediiim in thickness and number, dark brownish red almost entirely overspread 

 with gray scarf-skin; prickles variable in length, of medium thickness and number, strong, 

 thick at the base, singly with scattering bristles between the nodes; leaf -buds large, long, 

 conical, plump, free; leaves medium in size, cordate, with obovate, deeply cut, open lobes, 

 thick, dark green, glossy, smooth, with crenate margins; petiole of medium length and 

 thickness, greenish, pubescent and with reddish hairs. Flowers midseason, large, singly; 

 pedicels medium in length and thickness, pubescent; cal3Tc-tube green, pubescent; calyx- 

 lobes narrow, medium in length and thickness, pubescent, tinged red; ovary pubescent, 

 sometimes with a few reddish hairs. Fruit early; variable in size and shape, averaging 

 large, roundish oval, deep, dioll wine-red, with lines and flecks of lighter color becoming 

 dark red at full maturity; skin variable, nearly smooth or slightly hairy, glaucous, of medium 



