The Cciiiadiaii Horticulturist. 



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floor for a day or two tlie moisture 

 becomes evened up, and one cannot 

 tell which was the crisp and which 

 the moist apple. The favorite pack- 

 age is a box holding two cubic feet. 

 One side is faced with large white 

 slices. The fruit should all be put 

 into the case with the hands and 

 great care taken to remove all seeds 



and everything you would not care 

 to find in your pie or sauce. It does 

 not require much capital to begin the 

 business even on quite an extensive 

 scale, as dryers can be purchased for 

 part cash, and commission merchants 

 stand ready to atlvance money on 

 your fruit. — C. A. \Vikoiitb,in Farm 

 (I lid Home. 



J\c\V or Xi^^' lCiH)\Vi^ 'Ki*7iits. 



The Pearl Gooseberry. 



On Saturday, the 3rd of August, 

 the writer in company with Mr. 

 Leavenworth, the editor of the St. 

 Catharines News, and Mr. Parnell, a 

 member of our Association, re- 

 sponded to an invitation from Mr. 

 A. M. Smith to visit his fruit 

 grounds, and see a new gooseberry. 

 A drive of three miles from St. 

 Catharines brought us to Port 

 Dalhousie, where, near the shores of 

 Lake Ontario, Mr. Smith has some 

 thirty acres devoted to peaches, 

 pears and small fruits. 



The Pearl is a gooseberry grown 

 from the seed of Houghton crossed 

 with Whitesmith, by Prof. Wm. 

 Saunders, and worthy of special 

 notice because, (i) of its good quali- 

 ty, (2) its size, (3) its produc- 

 tiveness, (4) its freedom from mil- 

 dew. So far we have only the 

 Houghton, Smith's Improved and 

 Downing, which are proved to be 

 mildew proof, although the Conn 

 (or Autocrat) has not been known to 

 mildew as yet, and in most cases the 

 Industry is free from the fungus. 



Now, with reference to these points, 

 we wdl give the result of our 

 observations. The quality is good, 

 very like the Downing in this respect, 

 as well as in color and marking ; but 

 in size, it averages nearl)' double 

 that berry, and that in spite of the 

 prodigious crop under which the 

 bushes were laden. There was a 

 row of some fifty or sixty fine bushes, 

 two years planted ; and most of them 

 were literally bent to the ground 

 with heaps of fruit. The average 

 was about eight berries per inch of 

 wood, and on one bush we estimated 

 that there must have been at least 

 1,500 berries. We have had great 

 loads upon the Smith, the Downing 

 and the King Conn (or Autocrat) on 

 our own grounds, but we have not 

 seen quantity of fruit upon the 

 bushes of any variety to equal that 

 upon these bushes of the Pearl. 

 Should this productiveness prove 

 constant the berry will be of great 

 value for the market garden. With 

 regard to the mildew, all we can say is 

 what we saw, viz., — an entire free- 

 dom from it. One bush stood next a 



