THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



One sees Gooseberries more and more used as 

 trained trees, and they yield their finest fruit when 

 restricted to two or three branches, which are allowed 

 to extend several feet, and are pruned by stopping the 

 side shoots in summer and cutting them close back in 

 late winter. Such trees can be trained on a wall or a 

 wire framework the same as cordon Apples and Pears. 

 If selected varieties are grown, the fruit will grow as 

 large as Walnuts, and often bring a special price when 

 offered for sale at the best town shops. These very large 

 fruits are not generally the best in flavour, however. 

 Several of the small Gooseberries are quite delicious as 

 dessert fruits. Here are selections to embrace various 

 types : 



Large Gooseberries Fine-Flavoured Gooseberries 



Antagonist Bright Venus 



Dan's Mistake Langley Beauty 



London Langley Gage 



Trumpeter Red Champagne 



Gooseberries for Tarts 

 Crown Bob 

 Whinham's Industry 



All may be grown as bushes or trained trees. 



Red and White Currants are also grown on the flat 

 system against walls and wires, being pruned the same 

 as Gooseberries. They do not object, nor does the 

 Gooseberry, to a north or east wall. The Black Currants 

 are not so suitable, and if they were grown as trained 

 trees at all they would have to be grown as fans, so that 

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