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oaiiscil !)>• iiijiiiit'3 or accklciits. A dant, it must be tliiimcil in the proper 



siilliuiciit mniilicr of stakfs, about five season. 



feet hij;b, being fixed in the jjcronnd, in Tiic crop, when ripe, has a vcrjr beau- 



tho sai.'ie line with the phmts, single tiful ajtpearancc, ever} gooseberry being 



branehes must be trained to each stake, exposed to the view of persons walking' 



and, wlion they liave grown to the tops of under tlic trellis : tliis circumstance, and 



these, the trellis should be formed and the facility with which the fruit may be 



fixed; (ills may be made of such mafe- 

 linls as are most convenient, cither of 

 common poles, framed wood, or iron. 

 The heiglil, from tlie ground <o (ho cen- 

 tre of the arch, sliould be full seven 



gathered, are alone suffieient to recom- 

 mend the adoption of the [)lan ; besides, 

 tlicre is a great advantage in the berries 

 being kept at all times perfectly clean, 

 and free from the dirt occasioned by the 



Icet, to allow persons to walk with ease splashing of rain, which always ha[)pcns 



under it. Wheji the trellis is fixed, the whe!» the branches are near the ground : 



stakes may be removed, and Ihe branches and I am satisfied, that a more abundant 



must be tied to the frame work, at even crop is produced on plants thus trained 



distances from each other, and trained than on those of equal age managed in 



ill direct lines upwards, until they ulti- the ordinary way. The facility with 



mately meet at the top. It will be which the ground can be dug, and 



about six years, from the time of plant- manure applied, is also additional cause 



iiig, before the whole trellis is well of recommendation of the plan, 



covered. If a larger produce of gooseI)erries 



The management of the plants thus is refjuired than one line of trellis will 



treated is very simple; in the spring and supply, a second and a third may be 



summer the side shoots must be piiiciied 

 oil" at a little distance from their origin, 

 so as to keep the branches clear of each 

 other; and at the pruning season the 

 sliools may be all cut in, so as to form 

 spurs close to the main stems, A good 



formed, and the intervals between them 

 may be crop|)ed with any garden vege- 

 table, for these spaces will not be 

 trampled upon ; as, in the performance 

 of any of the operations, it is not neces- 

 sary for the gardener to go on the out- 



leading shoot must be kept at the end of side of the frame to work, 

 each branch, until it has attained the The ellect to the eye, when the crop 



proper length ; and this must be short- is ripe, is much the best when the same 



cned in the winter down to the first kinds of gooseberries are planted opjio- 



stroiigbud. When a branch has failed, site to each other in the rows, so th;a 



from any cause, a nev/ one must be led both sides, and the lop of the arch, at 



up from the bottom, to supply its place, the same place, may bear similar fruit. 

 As the fruit produced will be most abun- 



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Genoa in IMO, as has been observed in 

 some iiianubcript notices, found anions 

 the papers of the celeliraled senator 

 Federici. The second son was named 

 Bartholomew, and the thiid, Giacoino, 

 who was afterwards called Diego in Spain. 

 The name of a sister, who was married to 

 Giaconio Bavarello, a cheesemonger, has 

 not reached us. Christopher had such an 

 education as might be expected from a 

 poor wool-carder. He learned reading 

 and writing, and the first elements of arith- 

 metic ; and, in the occupation of carding 

 wool along with his brother Bartholomew, 

 his early days passed in obscurity. At 

 fourteen years of age he went to sea, and 

 continued in the professiunof a sailor until 

 his death. In the year 1472 he went to 

 Savona, to which city his father IJoineuico 



lind, 



■\1^E are at length gratified by some 

 * » anihentic details relative to Colinn- 

 bus, Tliey proceed from his native city, 

 Genoa, where it was lately determined to 

 publish the collection of Docnments and 

 Memorials relative to his life, whieh he 

 himself caused to be transmitted to his 

 native city for preservation. "Christopher 

 Cohmihiis was born at Genoa. An agree- 

 ment, (published by the Genoese academi- 

 cians,) concluded in 140t», proves that 

 Donienico Coloinho possessed a house and 

 shop, well and garden, itella conlruda tli 

 porta S. Andrea, (in the street of St. 

 Andrew's gate.) The year of his birth 

 iniist liave been either in 1416 or 1417. 

 .Jriv was liie eldest of the sons, and «as 

 probably named Chri:jlophcr after a 

 toluuibus ol that name who was living at 



