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Robinson's Crudus — — 



Withington's Sceptre — 



Green Gooselerries. 



Blakeley's Chissel — — 



Boardman's Green Oak — 



Brundrit's Tickle Toby — 



Chadwick's Hero — ■ — 



Dean's Lord Hood — — 



Mill's Langley Green — 



Read's Satisfaction — — 



Robinson's Stump — — 



Smith's Green Mask — 



Yates's Duke of Bedford — 



White Gooseberries. 



Adams's Snow Ball — — 



Atkinson's White Hall — 

 Chapman's Highland White 



Davenport's Lady — — 



Gibson's Apollo — — 



Holding's White Muslin — 



Kenyon's White Noble — 



Moor's White Bear — — 



Woodward's White Smith — 



a hazel-nut, armed all over with stout prickles. 

 It is a native of Canada, flowering in April. 



Culture in the Currant Kind. — These may be 

 raised with great facility from layers, seed, cut- 

 tings, 8cc. 



In the first mode, when the trees are cut low, 

 Mr. Forsyth advises the laying down some of 

 the branches either in the winter or spring sea- 

 sons, when the ground in the quarters or rows 

 is dug, which should always be done annually. 

 In the autumn following, these layers will have 

 made fine roots ; then they may be planted out 

 where they are to stand, and they will mostly 

 bear fine fruit in the following summer. 



In the second method, the cuttings should be 

 chosen of the strongest and straightest shoots, 

 which should be cut six or eight inches in 

 length, and be planted out on an east or north 

 border, in the early autumn, at the distance of a 

 foot from row to row, leaving only a few inches out 

 of the ground. In this way they may be kept per- 

 fectly free from weeds. In dry weather, during" 

 the spring, they should be often refreshed with 

 water. Some also raise these plants from suck- 



In favourable seasons, he says, many of the ers, but this is a method that should be avoided 

 above sorts have been known to weigh more by as much as possible, as they never grow hand- 



several pennyweights 



The fifth has the leaves not only wider, but of 

 a darker colour ; prickles to each leaf one or two, 

 but sometimes none; short and much weaker 

 than in the common Gooseberry, besides others 

 that are harmless and much shorter scattered 



some, and are apt to throw out suckers. 



In respect to the seed, it should be sown on 

 a border where the mould is fine, either in the 

 autumn or early in the spring, and the young 

 plants when they appear kept free from weeds. 

 When they have attained sufficient growth they 

 may either be planted out where they are to re- 



over the branches : the fruit when ripe com- 

 monly dark purple, but sometimes red or even main, or be set out in nursery-rows 

 yellow. It is a native of Germany, flowering But Mr. Forsyth observes, that under the 

 in April, and the fruit ripening in June and bushes that have been covered for late fruit, 

 j u ]y. plenty of self-sown plants may constantly be 

 The sixth species has more frequent and milder found, which he advises to be planted out 

 prickles than the common Gooseberry ; the by themselves. And those who make currant- 

 leaves are smooth and more deeply cut; the fruit wine, may, he says, save the seed, after the 

 small and round, the size and shape of a Cur- fruit is squeezed, and dry it : it may then be 

 rant; colour at first purple, but when ripe dark sown in the manner directed above, by which, 

 purple with a blue bloom ; it is smooth, on a most probably, some fine varieties may be ob- 

 short slender peduncle; the pulp subacid, dusky tained. As in many gardens there still remains, 

 purple with one or two brown seeds, of a round the same writer says, a small sort of red and 



form slightly angular. The stems are ash -co 

 loured, with frequent slender brownish prickles, 

 like the Burnet Rose, but less rigid; the young 

 shoots are pale green, and have green prickles: 

 the flowers one or two from an axil, white and 

 yellowish white. It is a native of Canada, flow- 

 ering in April and May 



white currant not worth cultivating, he would 

 advise those who have any of them to root them 

 up, and plant in their room, the large red and 

 white Dutch, the long-bunched red, and 

 Champagne large pale red. 



These plants may be planted out, Mr. Forsyth 

 says, either in quarters or single rows round the 



The seventh has the appearance of the other edges of the quarters, in the gardens or other 

 species, but the leaves are little gashed : the places 



leaves are 

 prickle like a thorn under the axils : the pedun 

 cles generally three-flowered : the germ in the 

 flower hairy,' but not prickly. It has the co- 

 rolla of the third sort : the berries the size of 



And he " would particularly recommend 

 planting a few against a south or west wall, or 

 paling, which will produce fruit much earlier 

 than in quarters, &c. Also to plant some be- 



