THE GOOSEBERRY. 61 
managed, and if not well managed in the pruning they 
will be deficient of good fruit-bearing wood. 
Liquid manure may be given them from the time 
the fruit begins to swell till it is ripe; two ounces of 
guano to one gallon of water once a week will be found 
very beneficial. The ground should be watered with 
this all over, and one good sowing with soot will be 
found an excellent and stimulating manure for Goose- 
berries ; this should be put on before the trees break 
leaf. 
Soot is a good preventive against insect pests, 
especially the fly that produces the ‘ Gooseberry cater- 
pillar,’ a pest frequently very troublesome in the fruit- 
ing time. The fly does not like soot, and if it is sown 
over the whole of the bushes before they break leaf, it 
will not settle upon them; soot is also a fine manure 
for the trees, but the Gooseberry requires a top dressing 
with some substantial manure besides, which should be 
put on the ground as soon as the leaves drop, and then 
forked in with a three-pronged Potato fork (not with 
the spade), taking care never to dig close to the stem, 
nor in any case to raise the roots up near the surface of 
the ground, for be it remembered the Gooseberry will 
readily emit branches from the roots if they are 
brought above the surface. 
THE GOOSEBERRY IN POTS. 
The Gooseberry will produce a fine and abundant 
crop of fruit when grown in pots under glass. Itisa 
gross feeder, it is true, but by giving liquid manure to 
the trees once a week from the time the fruit begins to 
swell fine fruit may be obtained. 
