82 THE CULTURE OF 



Summer in North America unfavourably hot. 



of Jane and July. Whoever have atten- 

 tively noticed the growth of the trees in va- 

 rious soils and situations, will have observed 

 those growing on dry soils, however well 

 cultivated, to have produced fruit of very 

 inferior size, and this in common seasons, 

 when our summers have not been unusually 

 warm or hot. And as a farther proof that 

 warmth of sun, in conjunction with a hot 

 soil, is unfavourable to the perfection of 

 Gooseberries, it is a vrell-known fact, that 

 in the State of New York, in North Ame- 

 rica, where the summers are more hot than 

 in England, that those of larger size taken 

 from this country, there produce fruit of 

 such insignificant growth as not to merit 

 culture: and it may invariably be observed 

 of the practice of cultivators of this fruit, in 

 the habit of exhibiting their superior pro- 

 ductions at annual meetings, as in the seve- 

 ral counties of Warwick, Northampton, 

 Leicester, Nottingham, Lancaster, &c. that 



