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or plum orchards, where the shade is not too dense, they seem 

 to be at home. In such locations some of the English varieties 

 have been successfully grown. Mr. Benjamin G. Smith, who 

 has often been a successful competitor for the prizes offered by 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, names as the best of 

 the English gooseberries, Woodward's Whitesmith, Wellington's 

 Glory, Glenton Green, and Yellow Amber : and of native vari- 

 eties, Downing and Smith's Seedling. The Houghton originated 

 in Lynn, Mass., with Mr. Abel Houghton. It is very hardy and 

 productive, but rather small for a popular market sort. 



Gooseberries should be set in rows five feet apart, and the 

 plants three feet apart in the rows. If any cultivation is given 

 in spring, it should be shallow and very early, as any disturb- 

 ance of the roots at this season is thought to be injurious, and 

 all cultivation later than August has a tendency to cause a 

 growth of immature wood that is liable to be injured in winter. 

 To avoid the same result, no manure should be applied in the 

 fall until the plants have ceased to grow. Coal ashes have been 

 recommended for currant and gooseberry bushes, and when 

 mixed with about ninety-nine per cent, of wood ashes, they are 

 undoubtedly of great value. 



THE CEANBEEEY. 



( Vaccinium macrocarpon . ) 



Few fruits will better repay the enterprise and skill of the 

 intelligent cultivator than the cranberry. It grows and thrives 

 best on land entirely worthless for any other purpose. A 

 natural peat-bog, wet meadow, or morass, if properly prepared, 

 and kept clean until the vines become established, will continue 

 productive for an indefinite period. Instances may be found of 

 bogs planted thirty, and even fifty, years ago, on Cape Cod and 

 in New Jersey, that still yield profitable crops. 



The vines require no manure, though fertilizers have, in a 

 few cases, been applied with apparent benefit. The gradual and 

 constant decay of the vegetable substances of which such soils 

 are composed, with the sediment precipitated by the annual in- 



