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managed, and if not well managed in the pruning they 

 will be deficient of good fruit-bearing wood. 



Liquid manure may be given them from the time 

 the fruit begins to swell till it is ripe ; two ounces of 

 guano to one gallon of water once a week will be found 

 very beneficial. The ground should be watered with 

 this all over, and one good sowing with soot will be 

 found an excellent and stimulating manure for Goose- 

 berries ; this should be put on before the trees break 

 leaf. 



Soot is a good preventive against insect pests, 

 especially the fly that produces the ' Gooseberry cater- 

 pillar,' a pest frequently very troublesome in the fruit- 

 ing time. The fly does not like soot, and if it is sown 

 over the whole of the bushes before they break leaf, it 

 will not settle upon them ; soot is also a fine manure 

 for the trees, but the Gooseberry requires a top dressing 

 with some substantial manure besides, which should be 

 put on the ground as soon as the leaves drop, and then 

 forked in with a three-pronged Potato fork (not with 

 the spade), taking care never to dig close to the stem, 

 nor in any case to raise the roots up near the surface of 

 the ground, for be it remembered the Gooseberry will 

 readily emit branches from the roots if they are 

 brought above the surface. 



THE GOOSEBERRY IN POTS. 



The Gooseberry will produce a fine and abundant 

 crop of fruit when grown in pots under glass. It is a 

 gross feeder, it is true, but by giving liquid manure to 

 the trees once a week from the time the fruit begins to 

 swell fine fruit may be obtained. 



