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The juice is frequently boiled down to an ex- 

 tract, with the addition of a small proportion of 

 sugar; in this state it is called Rob, and used 

 in sore throats. 



Currants are by some supposed the most use- 

 ful of all the small fruits, either for table or cu- 

 linary uses, as well as for \vine, continuing long 

 in succession with due management. The black 

 sort is seldom sent to table. 



This sort niay be infused in spirit of any kind, 

 in which way they make a good liquor. 



The third is a low branching slirub ; the 



firickles under the buds one, two, or three: the 

 eaves three-lobed, gashed, subpubescent : the 

 petioles bairv, commordy longer than thw leaves: 

 the peduncles one-flowered, nodding, having 

 one, tv\o or three opposite ovate ciliate bractes 

 in the middle : the germ villose : the berries pen- 

 dulous, hairy. 



It is observed by the editor of Miller's Dic- 

 tionary, that if tlie bractes do not distinguish 

 this from the following, the roughness or 

 smoothness of the berries will hardly do it, as 

 Mr. llobson has found that seeds fronj the same 

 plant will produce both rough and smooth fruit. 

 lie cannot regard them as d;lferent species. It 

 is a native of several parts of Europe. 



The fourth sort has the buds woolly : the ca- 

 lyx bent back : the peduncle woolly : the bractc 

 ovale, embracing, generally with three divi- 

 sions : the flow ers solitary, pendent : the stipule, 

 ciliate with knobbed hairs : a triple thorn be- 

 neath the buds ; ihe berry crowned with the per- 

 manent calyx, peduncled, pulpy, subdiapha- 

 nous, pale, amber-coloured, red or purple, 

 smooth, the p'.'Ip watery and sweet : receptacles 

 formed of the skin of the berry thickened, ob- 

 long, narrow; with filiform umbilical chords, 

 the length of the seeds, and inserted into their 

 inner and blunter extremity : seeds as far as 

 thirty, ovate-oblong, with a pellucid jelly about 

 them, ruf jseent. It is a native of the northern 

 parts of Europe. 



Martyn remarks that the Gooseberry seems 

 to have been formerly a fruit in very little 

 tsteem, but has received so much improvement 

 that it is now become valuable, not only for 

 tarts, pies and sauces, both fresh, and preserved 

 in bottles, but as an early dessert fruit, and pre- 

 served ill sugar for winter use, to answer the 

 same purpose. 



The most important varieties are of the Red 

 kind ; the hairy, smooth, deep red, damson or 

 dark-red blueish, red raspberry, early black- 

 red, Champaigne, Sec. 



Of the Green kind ; the hairy, smooth, Gas- 

 coigiie, raspberry, &c. 



Of the Yellow kind ; the great oval, great 

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amber, hairy amber, early amber, large ta\^- 

 ney or great mogul, iic. 



t)f the White kind; the common, white- 

 veined, and large crystal. 



But besides these, there is the rumbellion, 

 large ironmonger, smooth ironmonger, hairy 

 globe, and innumerable others, some of very 

 large size, annually raised from seed, weighing 

 from ten to fifteen pennyweights, but there are 

 small ones belter tasted. There are said to be 

 upw aids of two hundred, at least in name. 



Mr. Forsyth gives the followirg list from the 

 Catalogue of Messrs. Kirk, Nurserymen, at 

 Brompton, near London : — 



Supreme Red, Perfection Red, High Sheriff 

 of Lancashire, Royal George, Unicorn, Rough 

 Amber, White Walnut, Ackerley's Double 

 Bearer, Royal Oak, Miss Bold's, Sparkler, 

 Akerley's Rodney, I^ampson's Caesar, Monk's 

 Charles Fox, St. John, Pigeon Egg, Worth- 

 inglowe's Conqueror, Golden Eagle, Royder's 

 Triumph, Williamson's Yellow Hornet, Swing- 

 hain, Jackson's Golden Orange, Goliah Cham- 

 pion, Warrington Red, Golden Drop, Coster- 

 diner Goliah Champion, Hairy Amber, Nixon's 

 Golden Eagle, Worthington's White Lily, Lay- 

 lord's Seedling, Nixon's White Heart, Riding's 

 Old England, Bakeley's Swingham, Tillotson's 

 St. John. 



And he adds another " list of the largest new- 

 sorts shown in Lancashire in the summer 

 (1800), with their colour and weight, as com- 

 municated by Messrs M'Ni\cii, nurserymen, 

 Manchester : — 



Red Gooseberries. 



Alcock's King ^ — : — 



Duke of York — 



Boardman's Royal Oak — 



Brundrit's Atlas — — 



Chapman's Peerless — — 



Dien's Glory of England — 



Fairlow's Lord Hood — 



Fisher's Conqueror — — 



Fox's Jolly Smoker — — 



Hall's Porcupine — — 



Lomax's \'ictory — — 



ISlason's Hercules — • — 



'J'aylor's Volunteer — — 



V^orthington's Glory of Eceles 

 Yellow Gooseberries. 



Brundrit's Sir Sidney -^ 



Davenport's Defender — 



■ Creeping Ceres 



H imnet's Kilton — — 



Hill's Golden Gourd — — 



Roval Sovereign — 



Leigh's Prince of Orange — 



Parkinson's Goldfinder — 



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