SAXIFRAGACE^ 



Floxvcrs golden-yellow, fragi'ant, in a many-flowered drooping raceme ; Petals 

 much shorter than calyx segments, bordered with red ; Stamens bright red ; 

 Fruit a berry, yellow, seldom black, glabrous. 



Leaves alternate, 3-lobed, lobes divaricate, pale green, glabrous, shining; 

 petioles long, ciliated at base. Autumn tints bright purple to brilliant vermilion. 



A deciduous shrub, 6-8 ft. ; Tivigs straw-coloured, slender, straggling. 



Introduced from N. America, 1812. Known also as Buffjdo Currant and 

 Golden-flowered Currant. Specific name = golden (L. aurum, gold). 



GOOSEBERRY, Rlbes Grossidaria. 



Hedges, copses, gardens. April, IVJay, Prune weak shoots of current 

 year's gro-wi^h to within 1 in. of base in June or July; thin out remaining 

 shoots in winter, shortening those left to 4 or 6 ins. 



Flowers greenish-white, i in. diam. ; proterandrous, in racemose groups of 

 1-3 flowers on laterals and dwarf shoots, pedicels short, 2-3 ovate bracts; 

 Cahjx-tube campanulate, 5-toothed, erect or spreading, then reflexed, epigynous, 

 violet glandular hairs; Corolla small, erect, pale greenish-white; Stamens 

 epigynous; Ovai-y inferior, style 1, stigma bifid, 2 parietal placenta?; Fruit 

 a berry, ellipsoid or globoid, i-li in. long, glabrous, pubescent or glandular, 

 juicy pulp ; seeds several, small. 



Leaves alternate, fascicled on dwarf shoots, f-l^ in. diam., sub-orbicular 

 or ovate, 3-5-lobed, crenated, pubescent, nearly glabrous above, paler beneath. 

 Autumn tints yellow and brown. 



A deciduous shrub, 3-4 ft. ; Branches spiny, grey to brown ; spines 

 single or triple, both at leaf-scars and scattered along internodes ; Tivigs 

 slender, grey ; Buds pointed, scales brown, cihate. 



Native of Britain. 



Chief insects injurious to cultivated Gooseberries :—7?arA— Gooseberry and 



Currant Scale {Lecanium ribis) ; Leaves— Cuvvant Aphis {Aphis ribis). Magpie 



Moth {Abraxas grossulariata). Winter Moth {Cheimatobia brumata), V-Moth 



{Thamnonoma ivauaria, Halia vauaria). Gooseberry and Currant Saw-fly 



{Nematus ribesii) ; Shoots— Quxrant Clearwing Motli {Sesia tipuliformis). 



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