GOOSEBERRY GROWING IN ONTARIO. 



Fig. 1394. — Spray uf "Lord Dufferin," Gooseberries 



Sir, — I am sending you by this mail a sam- 

 ple of gooseberries. I don't know the name 

 of them. I should like you to tell me the 

 name of them if you can, in your next month's 

 journal ; also say if you think they are well 

 grown, 13 weighs one-half pound ; these are 

 some of the largest, but the average berry 

 weighs over ^ oz. each. The tree mildews. 

 Can you give a cure for it ? I should also 

 like to see an article in your journal on red 

 currants, as to the pruning of them. I have 

 some good ones but they grow long branches, 

 not suckers ; they grow so long in a season 

 that they break off with the least touch. 

 Would it hurt them to cut them back sonte 

 this month, so as to give them more strength 

 at the joint? I like your journal very well. 

 Oblige, 



Yours truly, 



R. C. Vause. 



The gooseberries sent us by Mr. 

 Vause resemble Whitesmith, but if of 

 that variety they are of unusually fine 

 size. We believe there is money in 



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gooseberries of this size wherever the 

 soil and climate is suitable. 



The sandy soil of the Niagara district 

 does not suit them ; we cannot advise 

 growers in such locations to undertake 

 them with an eye to profit. Even the 

 Downing and the Pearl, which, under 

 favorable circumstances are the most 

 productive of all varieties with us in 

 Canada, are often only second-rate in pro- 

 ductiveness on light dry soils, for want of 

 vigor of plant ; and even in seasons of 

 great fruitfulness, when the Pearl and 

 Downing bushes are literally loaded to 

 the ground with their weight of fruit, we 

 have seen the whole crop ruined by sun 

 scald. This has been the case two years 

 in succession at Grimsby, in Mr. Mc- 



