who love the summer flowers find their season doubled, for the kinds they 

 have left waning in the South are not yet in bloom in the more northern 

 latitude. The flowers of our July gardens. Delphiniums, Achilleas, 

 Coreopsis, Eryngiums, Geums, Lupines, Scarlet Lychnis, Bergamot, 

 early Phloxes, and many others, and the hosts of spring-sown annuals, 

 are just in beauty. Sweet Peas are of astounding size and vigour. Straw- 

 berries are not yet over, and early Peas are coming in. The Gooseberry 

 season, that had begun in the earliest days of August with the Early 

 Sulphurs and had been about ten days in progress in the Southern English 

 gardens, is for a time interrupted, but resumes its course in September in 

 the North, where this much-neglected fruit comes to unusual excellence. 

 It is a hardy thing, and appears to thrive better north of the Border than 

 elsewhere. 



It is one of the wholesomest of fruits ; its better sorts of truly 

 delicious flavour. It is a pleasure, to one who knows its merits, to extol 

 them. It is essentially a fruit for one who loves a garden, because, for 

 some reason difficult to define, it is less enjoyable when brought to table 

 in a dessert dish. It should be sought for in the garden ground and 

 eaten direct from the bush. Perhaps many people are deterred by its 

 spiny armature, and it is certain that, when, as is too often the case, the 

 bushes are in crowded rows and have been allowed to grow to a large 

 size, the berries are difficult to get at. 



But the true amateur of this capital autumn fruit has them in espalier 

 form, in a few short rows, with ample space — about six feet — between 

 each row. 



The plants may be had ready trained in espaHer shape, but it is 

 almost as easy to train them from the usual bush form. The vigorous 

 young growth that will spring out every year is cut away at the sides in 

 middle summer ; just a shoot or two of young wood being left, when 

 the bushes have grown to a fair size, to train in, to take the place of 

 older wood. The plants being restricted to the fewer branches that form 

 the flat espalier, more strength is thrown into the ones that remain, so 

 that the berries become larger ; and, as plenty of light and sun can get 

 to the fruits, even the best kinds are sweeter and better flavoured than 

 when they are allowed to grow in dense bushes. 



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