68 MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 



soured and thorny in character, nevertheless 

 has its good points, and is well deserving of 

 the limited attention it requires. I refer to the 

 gooseberry, dear to the memory from the innu- 

 merable tarts and pies it furnished for our 

 dinner basket in school-days. Its propagation 

 and culture are as simple as those of the cur- 

 rant ; so men who are without gooseberries are 

 without excuse. I have twenty-three bushes, 

 and from these two bushels and twenty-two 

 quarts were sold for eleven dollars and sixty- 

 three cents, and sundry quarts disappeared in 

 other ways. 



But even these hardy fruits could not stand 

 the severe open winter of '71-2, and the bushes 

 were so much injured that there was but little 

 more than half a crop of currants, and not 

 over half a bushel of gooseberries were picked 

 altogether. Thus the receipts in '72 from the 

 currants fell off ten dollars and forty-one cents 



