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translucent, moderately firm but tender, abundantly juicy but of 

 fair shipping quality ; flavor sprightly subacid ; quality good to very 

 good. Season, the second half of July, at Rochester, N. Y. 



Wood and foliage similar to Cherry, but more vigorous than that 

 variety. 



A promising sort for both the home garden and the market planta- 

 tion. 



The specimen illustrated in Plate XXXII was grown by Green's 

 Nursery Company, Rochester, X. Y. 



CARRIE GOOSEBERRY. 



[PLATE XXXIII.] 



While the gooseberry has not yet attained the standing as a home 

 garden or market fruit in the United States that is accorded to it in 

 some of the European countries, especially the United Kingdom, 

 there are few fruit gardens in the Northern States where it is unrepre- 

 sented, while in some sections it has become an important market 

 fruit. The failure of the highly developed European varieties to 

 endure our more intense and variable climatic conditions is doubtless 

 the explanation of the general lack of interest among American 

 growers, which is indicated by the very small number of American 

 varieties that have appeared thus far. Hardly more than a half dozen 

 such sorts, including Houghton, which originated in 1833, and Down- 

 ing, about 1854, a have as yet established their value as desirable sorts. 

 A few of the European sorts when given special care and attention 

 have been found fairly successful, one of the most conspicuous of 

 these being Industry, which was introduced into the United States 

 by Ellwanger & Barry about 1883. Seedlings are still being grown, 

 however, and some systematic breeding work is being done that 

 promises to yield varieties better adapted to the conditions prevailing 

 in particular districts than any yet disseminated, both as regards 

 disease resistance, cold endurance, and productiveness. One of the 

 most promising of those recently disseminated is the Carrie, which 

 originated as a seedling of Houghton, grown by Mr. Wyman Elliot, of 

 Minneapolis, Minn., in 1893. It was one of some 700 seedlings that 

 resulted from a supposed cross of Industry, of which one bush stood 

 adjacent to the mother Houghton bush. In the spring of 1894 the 

 seedlings were removed to the farm of Mr. Thomas Redpath, near 

 Lake Minnetonka, where one bush was soon discovered to be superior 

 to all the others in several important particulars. This, which was 

 the original Carrie, bore some fruit the first year after transplanting, 

 and at 4 years of age produced 8 quarts of berries. Having good 

 foliage and being of vigorous growth, and having maintained regular 

 productiveness without showing any winter injury, its commercial 



a Magazine of Horticulture, 1857, p. 516. 



