292 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



OTHER VARIETIES, 



RECOMMENDED IN THE POMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



RED. Boardman's British Crown, large. Red War- 

 rington, large, late, Red Champagne, small. Early 

 Black, small. 



WHITE. White Crystal, small. White Champagne, 

 small. 



GREEN. -"- Pitmaston Green Gage, small. 



YELLOW. Haywood's Invincible, large. Yellow Cham- 

 pagne. Rumbullion, small. 



I add, on good authority, the " Wonderful," the largest 

 gooseberry known. 



In the valley of the Columbia River, according to Mr. 

 Parker, there are native gooseberries of several varieties 

 one a yellow gooseberry ; an excellent kind, of a pleasant 

 flavor ; it grows on a shrub free from thorns. Another 

 kind is of a deep purple color, of the taste and size of our 

 winter grapes ; flavor fine, the bush thorny. 



CULTIVATION, SOIL, &c. 



Gooseberries require a very rich soil; and in an airy 

 situation or shade they are but little liable to mildew. In 

 all low lands, and in confined situations, in our climate, the 

 fruit of the gooseberry almost invariably mildews ; but 

 never on the open hills, and in places exposed to drying 

 winds. They are raised from cuttings planted very early 

 in April, in a moist soil ; every eye should be cut out ex- 

 cept the two uppermost above the surface. In autumn cut 

 off the lower shoot very close ; and shorten down the one 

 left to six or nine inches. The bushes must be so managed 

 as to be furnished with limbs diverging in every direction, 

 continually increasing in number as they advance from the 

 centre. With this object in view, the young leading shoots 

 of the last year are annually cut back to six or nine inches, 

 and a proportion of the others are cut quite close. Thus 

 the bushes will continue extending, every part being duly 



