THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol. XVII . 



1895 



No. S. 



THE WHITESMITH GOOSEBERRY. 



RUIT growers are too apt to copy after each other. One 

 is successful in making money out of a certain fruit, and 

 immediately all plant largely of that one fruit, and so over- 

 stock the market. The wisest plan is plant a little out of 

 the popular line, and better profits are likely to result. 

 The gooseberry, for example, has not yet been \evy largely 

 planted for market in Ontario ; and yet, where land is 

 suitable for growing the finer kinds, there is money in 

 growing it. A high and dr>' land, a mixture of clay 

 and sand, highly fertilized, will grow gooseberries to the 

 greatest perfection, and often quite free from mildew, as 

 witness those grown by Mr. Morton, at Brampton, or by Mr. Spillett, at Nantyre. 

 Even the English varieties may now be grown nearly mildew-free by the faithful 

 use of the Bordeaux mixture, and if such fine English sorts as the Whitesmith 

 and Crown Bob, why plant the smaller varieties ? 



In our report of 1892, page 61, Mr. Thos. Beall, who has had considerable 

 experience with this fruit, named as the three most profitable varieties, the 

 Whitesmith, Pearl and Downing. We think he might well omit the Downing, 

 for the Pearl is of the same character, often indistinguishable, except that it is a 

 trifle larger and more productive. He further thought the gooseberry one of 

 the most profitable fruits grown in Canada. Mr. T. H. Race, of Mitchell, Ont., 

 on the same occasion, placed Whitesmith at the head of the list for profit. This 

 gentleman has in his garden about 200 bushes of this variety, and is not troubled 

 with mildew. His soil is clay loam, enriched with wood ashes. 



