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deserves attention. We regret the berries were heated 

 before they reached us, so that we could not judge of 

 their flavor. ED.)" 



The Houghton is again mentioned in the ''Horti- 

 culturist" in vol. iii. page 119, and in the volume for 

 1854, page 104. Cole has it in his "American Fruit 

 Book" in 1849, using an illustration from the "Horti- 



Fig. 94. Leaves of Biles Grossularia. Fig. 95. Leaves of R. oxyacanthoides. 



culturist." Thomas inserted it, but no other native 

 gooseberry, in the fourth edition of "American Fruit 

 Culturist," 1850. Downing first mentions it in "Fruits 

 and Fruit Trees" in the revision of 1860, and Barry 

 described it in "Fruit Garden" the same year. 



Hoping to gain some knowledge of Houghton, I 

 applied to Walter B. Allen, president of the Houghton 

 Horticultural Society of Lynn, who replies as follows, 

 under date of March, 1896: "The Houghton goose- 

 berry was first produced, some sixty years ago, by 

 one Abel Houghton of this city (then town) of Lynn. 

 Mr. Houghton, we are told, took great interest in hor- 



