346 THE SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 



Red Warrington, i. Card. Citron. 69. 1841. 2. A'. Y. Sta. Bui. 114:29. 1897. 



Aston' s Seedling. 3. Christ Handb. 802. 1817. 



Aston' s Red. 4. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 178. 1831. 



Warrington. 5. Horticulturist 2:341. 1847-48. 



This old English sort is little grown in America but has so many good qualities for a 

 home plantation in which European gooseberries are wanted that it merits a place in this 

 text. The fruits are of but medium size and are rather dull in color and are rendered 

 somewhat less attractive by reason of stiff reddish hairs, but the quality is excellent and 

 the plants are satisfactory in nearly every respect. It merits notice also because of its 

 long and worthy past as an European variety under American conditions. Possibly no 

 other variety from across the seas has been grown longer or more widely in America than 

 Red Warrington. No information is available as to the origin of this variety except that it 

 is an old sort, probably first having been grown in England early in the last century. The 

 variety was probably brought to America nearly 100 years ago. The American Pomologi- 

 cal Society added the sort to its recommended list of fruits in 1852 where it appeared until 

 187 1 when it was dropped. 



Plants medium in size, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, productive, healthy; young 

 shoots medium in stockiness and nimiber, dull reddish brown overspread with gray scarf- 

 skin; prickles thick, unusually strong, medium in length, thickened at the base, 1-3, often 

 in triplets; leaf-buds small, short, conical, lean, semi-free; leaves numerous, small, cordate, 

 with obovate lobes, medium in thickness and color, glossy, with hairy, crenate margins; 

 petiole short, medium in thickness, pubescent, with very few glands near the base. Flowers 

 midseason, medium in size, single; pedicels medium in thickness and length, pubescent; 

 calyx-tube green, slightly pubescent; calyx-lobes medium in length, width and thickness, 

 pubescent, green tinged with red; ovary pubescent, with small reddish glands. Fruit late; 

 variable in size, averaging medium to above, roundish oval to long-oval, pale silvery green 

 changing to a delicate pale red, showing faint reddish lines and light-colored flecks; skin 

 with rather long, stiff" hairs, slightly glaucous, thin, tough ; flesh yellowish green, with tinge 

 of red, juicy, firm, sprightly; quality good. 



Ricardo. i. Mcintosh Bk. Card. 2:579. 1855. 2. Can. Cent. Exp. Farm Bui. 56:26. 

 1907. 



As grown in Canada this old English gooseberry is relatively free from mildew. Fruit 

 large, oval, dull coppery red, nearly smooth, sweet mingled with pleasant acidity; very 

 good. 

 Richland, i. Can. Cent. Exp. Farm Bui. 56:23. 1907. 



This sort is the result of a cross between Houghton and Red Warrington, made by 

 William Saunders, Ottawa, Canada, prior to 1890. Plants vigorous, upright, moderately 

 productive; fruit medium in size, nearly rovmd, dull orange-red, smooth, sweet but with an 

 acid skin; good; midseason. 

 Rideau. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 104. 1898. 



Another of Saunders' seedlings. Plants vigorous, very productive, almost free from 

 mildew; fruit medium to large, roimdish, green, wi*^h pale distinct ribs, smooth, sweet 

 mingled with pleasant acidity; good; late. 



