GOOSEBERRIES. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



The gentlemen of Lancashire (in England) have given 

 premiums for several years, for raising curious new sorts, 

 remarkable for size and flavour, and the following is a list 

 of two hundred of the principal, which have been exhibited 

 for this purpose, in the years 1828 and 1829. 



The first column of figures, in each year, shows the num- 

 ber of prizes which each sort has won, at the different ex- 

 hibitions throughout England ; the second column, the hea- 

 visest berry of the aggregate meetings, in pennyweights and 

 grains, troy- weight. 



An asterisk * denotes the berry to be new, and to have been brought out in that year 

 which stands at the head of the column under which it appears. 



