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in a 9-inch pot will be sufficient. The plants ought to have their points pinched 

 out when they are a foot high, and will need to be stopped until sufficient shoots are 

 produced for training. The further treatment consists in stopping any shoots that grow 

 too rampant. When the plants have made a foot of growth, if they do not show fruit 

 stop them, and subsequently as required, but after they commence blooming it will not 

 be necessary to stop the growths. Cut out unfruitful or exhausted shoots and train in 

 others for bearing, but avoid overcrowding. Water must be given whenever required, 

 allowing the soil to become fairly dry before watering, then afford a thorough supply, 

 with liquid manure occasionally. They are sometimes planted out, but are then apt to 

 grow too rampantly, and are 'as a rule better grown in pots, which may be plunged 

 over the rims in the border. 



The fruit usually ripens at the end of summer and in autumn, but the crop comes in 

 successionally, and fruit can be had almost throughout the year. Young plants kept 

 over the winter in 5- or 6-inch pots, and shifted into their fruiting pots early in spring, 

 blossom and fruit early in the summer and continuously. 



Red spider often infests the plants; for remedies see Vol. I., pages 269-272. 

 The worst pest, however, to the Cape Gooseberry is the white fly, which may be 

 similarly combated; and aphides may be destroyed by methods described on pages 

 257-260 of the same volume. 



