A FEW GOOD GOOSEBERRIES. 151 



Capper's Top Sawyer is an excellent red gooseberry, 

 also ripening rather late. The fruit is large, oblong, 

 pale red, and hairy at the stalk end. The branches are 

 rather drooping. 



Knight's Marquis of Stafford is a late, large, roundish, 

 bright red, hairy gooseberry, very good in flavour. The 

 branches grow rather upright. 



The Red Warrington is one of the best late varieties, 

 and Keen's seedling is equally good, and earlier. The 

 Emperor Napoleon and Farmer's Glory are both good- 

 bearing red sorts. 



Other good red gooseberries are Plggle's Magistrate, 

 with downy skin, and a spreading habit of growth a 

 first-rate kind ; Miss Bold, a medium-sized, roundish, 

 downy gooseberry, of first-rate quality and early ; it re- 

 sembles Red Walnut, but it is better ; the bush has a 

 spreading habit of growth ; Raspberry, Old Preserver, 

 or Nutmeg, small, thick-skinned, dark, hairy, very sweet 

 and rich in flavour, early, and a good bearer ; the 

 bush is spreading ; and Rifleman, Alcock's Duke of 

 York, Yates's Royal Anne, or Grange's Admirable, large, 

 roundish, hairy, first-rate in flavour, erect in growth, and 

 a good late bearer. Rob Roy, too, is a first-rate, hairy 

 gooseberry of medium size, and erect habit of growth. 

 Shakspeare is large and fine-flavoured, and Small Red 

 Globe, small, round, smooth, and of first-rate quality, 

 with a fine sharp, rich flavour. 



The Cheshire Lass is a white gooseberry, which is 

 very useful from the fruit early attaining a fine size to 

 use green for tarts. The fruit is large and oblong, and 

 when it is ripe the skin is very thin, and downy. It 

 is rich and sweet in flavour ; the bush grows erect, and 

 is a good bearer. 



Cleworth's White Lion is a good white gooseberry. 

 The fruit is roundish and downy; the tree rather of a 

 drooping habit of growth. 



The Early White is of medium size, very good, sweet, 

 and early. The fruit is roundish, with a very thin, 

 transparent, downy, yellowish- white skin. The bush is 

 erect and spreading, and is an excellent bearer. 



