R I B 



R I B 



Tlje juice is frequently boiled down loan ex- 

 tract, with the addition of a small proportion of 



;■ : in this state it is called Rob, and used 

 in sore throats. 



mt< are by some supposed the most use- 

 ful of all the small fruits, either For tabic or cu- 

 linary uses, as well as for wine, continuing long 

 in succession with due management. 'Hie black 

 sort is seldom sun to table 



This sort may be infused in spirit of any kind, 

 in which way they make a good liquor. 



The third is a low branching shrub: the 



[>rickles under the buds one, two, or three: the 

 eaves three-lobed, gashed, subpubescent : the 

 petioles hairy, commonly longer than the leaves: 

 the peduncles one-ilowcred, nodding, having 

 one, two or three opposite ovate ciliale bractes 

 in the middle : the germ vdlose : the berries pen- 

 dulous, hairy. 



I: is observed by the editor of Miller's Dic- 



ary, that if the bractes do pot distinguish 



this from the following, the roughness or 



smoothness of the berries will hardly do it, as 



Mr. Robson has found that seeds from the same 



Slant will produce both rough and smooth fruit. 

 Ic cannot regard them as different species. It 

 is a native of several parts of Europe. 



The fourth sort has the buds woolly : the ca- 

 lyx bent back : the peduncle woolly : the bracte 

 ovate, embracing, generally with three divi- 

 sions : the flowers solitary, pendent : the stipule, 

 ciliate with knobbed hairs: a triple thorn be- 

 neath the buds : the berry crowned with the per- 

 manent calyx, pcduncled, pulpy, subdiapha- 

 nous, pale, amber-coloured, red or purple, 

 smooth, the pub watery and. sweet : receptacles 

 formed of the skin of the berry thickened, ob- 

 long, narrow; with filiform umbilical chords, 

 the length of the seeds, and inserted into their 

 inner and blunter extremity : seeds as far as 

 y, ovate oblong, with a pellucid jelly about 

 them, rufeseei.t. It is a native of the northern 

 parts of Europe. 



Martyn remarks that the Gooseberry seems 

 to have been formerly a fruit in very little 

 esteem, hi:! Iu.s received so much improvement 

 that it is now become valuable, not only for 

 tarts, pies and sauce?, both fresh, and preserved 

 in bottles, but as an early dessert fruit, and pre- 

 d in sugar for winter use, to answer the 

 same pun 



The most important varieties are of the Red 

 kind; the hairy, smooth, deep red, damson or 

 dark-red blueish, red raspberry, early- black- 

 red. ( iic, Sec. 



Of the Green kind ; the hairy, smooth, Gas- 

 coigne, raspberry, &c. 



Of the Yellow kind : the great oval, great 

 Vol. II. 



large 



taw- 



common, white- 



urserymen, at 



amber, hairy amber, early amber, 

 nc-y or great mogul, Kc. 



Of the White kind; the 

 veined, and Luge crystal. 



But besides these, there is the rumbullion, 

 large ironmonger, smooih ironmonger, hairy 

 globe, and innumerable others, some of very 

 large size, annually raided from seed, weighing 

 from ten to fifteen pennyweights, but there are 

 small ones belter tasted. Thee are said to be 

 upy ardsof two hundred, at least in name. 



Mr. Forsyth gives the following list from the- 

 Catalogue of Messrs. kirk, N 

 Bromptpn, near London : — 



Supreme Red, Perfection Red, High Sheriff 

 of Lancashire, Royal George, L nicorn, Rough 

 Amber, White Walnut, Ackerley's Double 

 Bearer, Royal Oak, Miss Bold's, Sparkler, 

 Akerley's Rodnev, Ihunp-m's Caesar, Monk's 

 Charles Fox, St. John, Pigeon Egg, Worth- 

 inglowe's Conqueror, Golden Eagle", Rovder's 

 Triumph, Williamson's Yellow Hornet, Swing- 

 ham, Jackson's Golden Orange, Goliah Cham- 

 pion, Warrington Red, Golden Drop, Coster- 

 diner Goliah Champion, Hairy Amber, Nixon's 

 Golden Eagle, Worthington's White Lily, Lay- 

 lord's Seedling, Nixon's White Heart, Ridme's 

 0!d England, Bakeley's Swingham, Tillotsqn's 

 St. John. 



And he adds another " list of the largest new 

 sorts shown in Lancashire in the summer 

 (1S0O), with their colour and weight, as com- 

 municated by Messrs M'Niven, nurserymen, 

 Manchester : — 



Red Gooseberries. 



Alcock's King — — 



Duke of York — 



Boardman's Royal Oak — 



Brundrit's Atlas — — 



Chapman's Peerless — — 



Dun's Glory of England — 



Fairlow's Lord Hood — 



Fisher'.- Conqueror — 



Fox's Jolly Smoker — — 



Hall's Porcupine — — 



Lomax's Victory — — 



Mason's Hercules — — 



Taylor's Volunteer — — 



Worthington's Glory of Eecl> s 

 )'( Hon Gooseberries, 



Brundrit's Sir Sidney — 



Davenport's De lender — 



■ Creeping Ceres 



Hanmet's K.iltou — — 



Hili's Golden Gourd — — 



Royal So. 1 . — 



Leigh's Prince pi Orange — 



Parkinson's Goldtinder — 

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