A NOVA SCOTIA GOOSEBERRY. 



£s\ p^HAT our sister province by the 

 sea is not behind in fruit 

 culture is well evidenced by 

 her magnificent Gravenstein 

 apples, which command so ready a sale 

 in the best markets. Gooseberries, we 

 would suppose, should do well so near 

 the sea ; and this is farther evidenced 

 by the accompanying engraving from a 

 photograph, sent us by Mr. D H. Mc- 

 Farlane, of Pictou, N.S., accompanied 

 by the following noje : — 



" I am sending you a photo of a 

 seedling gooseberry grown in Pictou 

 County. I have been growing it for the 

 last twenty years, and I find it a very 

 good one with good cultivation, it grows 

 very large, colour when ripe red ; with 

 me comparatively free from mildew, 

 name Webster's Seedling." 



STARTING PLANTS IN MOSS. 



A very neat way to hurry our cuttings 

 and bulbs is to use moss instead of 

 earth. Take a large tomato can with 

 holes punctured in the bottom, or an 

 old leaky pail half filled with clean 

 moss, well pressed down, and place a 

 geranium on it with well spread roots, 

 and then fill the tin up with moss, and 

 you will be surprised at the result. The 

 geranium has blossomed more satis- 

 factorily with me* in this way than in 

 earth, the blossoms being richer, larger waten will the ladies pIease try and 

 and more vigorous. It needs only pure report 1 



water, rain water preferred. Fo'r ver- M j± Hoskins. 



andah basket culture, give plenty of Newport, Vt, 



1549. 



Nova Scotia Seedling Goose- 

 berry. 



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