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Rohinson's Crudiis — — 



Withington's Sceptre — 



Greaii Goostlerries. 



Blikcley's Chissel — — 



Boardinan's Green Oak — 



Brnndrit's Tickle Toby — 



Chadwick's Hero — — 



Dean's Lord Hood — — 



Mill's Langtey Green — 



Kead's Satisfaction — — • 



Robinson's Stump — — 



Smith's Green Mask — 



Yates's Duke of Bedford — 

 J V lute Gooseberries, 



Adams's Snow Ball — — 



Atkinson's White Hall — 



Chapman's Highland White 



Davenport's Lady — — 



Gibson's Apollo — — 



Holding's White Muslin — 



Kenyon's White Noble — 



Moor's White Bear — — 



Woodward's White Smith — 



In favourable seasons, he says, many of the 

 above sorts have been known to weigh more by 

 several pennyweights." 



The fifth has the leaves not only wider, but of 

 a darker colour; prickles to each leaf one or two, 

 but sometimes none; short and much weaker 

 than in the common Gooseberry, besides others 

 that are harmless and much shorter scattered 

 over the branches: the fruit when ripe com- 

 monly dark purple, but sometin)es red or even 

 yellow. It is a native of Germany, flowering 

 in April, and the fruit ripening in June and 

 July. 



The sixth species has more frequent and milder 

 prickles than the common Gooseberry ; the 

 leaves are smooth and more deeply cut; the fruit 

 small and round, the size and shape of a Cur- 

 rant; colour at first purple, but when ripe dark 

 purple with a blue bloom ; it is smooth, on a 

 short slender peduncle; the pulp subacid, dusky 

 purple, with one or two brown seeds, of a round 

 form slightly angular. The stems are ash-co- 

 loured, vvith frequent slender brownish prickles, 

 like the Burne*. Rose, but less ngid; the young 

 shoots are pale green, and have green prickles : 

 the flowers one or two from an axil, white and 

 vellowish white. It is a native of Canada, flow- 

 ering in April and May. 



The seventh has the appearance of the other 

 r-pecies, but the leaves are little gashed : the 

 prickle like a thorn under the axils : the pedun- 

 cles generally tbrcc-fiowered : the germ in the 

 flower hairy,' but not prickly. It has the co- 

 Tolla of the thi?d sort: the' berries the size of 



a hazel-nut, armed all over with stout prickles. 

 It is a native of Canada, flowering in April. 



Cidlure in the Currant Kind. — These may be 

 raised with great facility from layers, seed, cut- 

 tings, &c. 



In the first mode, when the trees arc cut low, 

 Mr. Forsyth advises the laying down some of 

 the branches either in the winter or sprmg sea- 

 sons, when the ground in the quarter*: or 'rows 

 is dug, whicii should always be done annualiv. 

 In the autumn followmg, these layers will have 

 made fine roots ; then they may be planted out 

 where they are to stand, and they will mostly 

 bear fine fruit in the following summer. 



In the second method, the cuttings should be 

 chosen of the strongest and slraightest shoots, 

 which should be cut six or eight inches in 

 length, and be planted out on an east or north 

 border, in the early autumn, at the distance of a 

 foot from row to row, leaving only a few inches out 

 of the ground. In this way they may be kept per- 

 fectly free from weeds. In dry weather, durinc 

 the spring, they should be often refresiied with 

 water. Some also raise these plants from suck- 

 ers, but this is a method that should be avoided 

 as much as possible, as they never grow hand- 

 some, and are apt to tbrow out suckers. 



In respect to the seed, it should be sown oa 

 a border where the mould is fine, either in the 

 autumn or early in the spring, and the young 

 plants when they appear kept free from weeds. 

 W^hen they have attamcd sufficient growtlv the/ 

 may either be planted out where they are to re- 

 main, or be set out in nursery-rows. 



But Mr. F^orsylh observes, that under the 

 bushes that have been covered for late fruit,, 

 plenty of self-sown plants may constantly be 

 found, whicli he advises to be jdanted out 

 by themselves. And those who make currant- 

 wine, may, he says, save the seed, after the- 

 fruit is squeezed, and dry it : it may then be 

 sown in the manner directed above, by which, 

 most probably, some fine varieties may be ob- 

 tained. As ia many gardens there still remains, 

 the same wriler says, a small sort of red and 

 white currant not worth cultivating, he would 

 advise those who have any of them to root iljeni 

 up, and plant in their room, the large red and 

 white Dutch, the long-bunthed red, and 

 Champagne large pale rcd^ 



These plants n)av be planted out, Mr. Forsyth 

 says, cither in quarters r)r single rows round the 

 edges of the quarters, in the gardens or other 

 places. 



And he " would particularly recommend 

 planting a few against a south or west wall, or 

 paling, which will produce fruit much earlier 

 thaa in quarters, Sec, Also, to plant some bii- 



