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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



The extent to which the American gooseberries 

 have supplanted the English types in this country 

 may be gleaned from the fact that in 1830 a mention 

 is made of a display of gooseberries before the Massa- 



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Fig. 100. Wild Kibes Cynosbati. Nearly full si 



chusetts Horticultural Society, in which "several fine 

 specimens of English varieties were shown, the pre- 

 mium being awarded to Nathaniel Seaver for the 

 Jolly Angler, the largest of which measured four and 

 a quarter inches in circumference;" whereas, in 1872, 



