264 PRIZE GOOSEBERRIES. 



berry has upon its fruit, select a young healthy tree, 

 and leave only three or four berries upon each 

 branch, plucking off the rest, when they are of the 

 size of a pea ; then give it what gardeners call an 

 emulsion of the ( Nectar adoratum,' the ' Lac me- 

 dicinale,' which is a watering-pot full of the draining, 

 or black fluid from the dunghill. Do this twice, a 

 fortnight apart ; if a large bush, thrice, but not 

 oftener, lest you stupify or intoxicate its vegetative 

 faculty, if I may so express it. 



When the berries are swelling and ripening, if 

 the weather be dry and hot, water frequently, but 

 do not saturate it too much at one time. This is 

 the method adopted by some who exhibit berries for 

 prizes, and is attended with the wished-for result. 



If your soil is light and sandy, and soon parches, 

 lay a stratum of rotten cow-dung upon the surface 

 round the root of the bush : this will keep the earth 

 below moist and cool, and be of service to both the 

 fruit and the tree. 



I do not pretend to say that the berries will equal, 

 either in size or weight, the newly restored anted!- 



