212 OF GOOSEBERRIES- 



You may observe, that those branches which 

 were cut the first vear, will in the second throw out 

 short (lugs, or spurs, which produce the fruit; and 

 these should by no means be cut off, unless the 

 branches are in a sickly state, and require to be cut 

 close down (as is the case this year 1800), when the 

 bushes are over-loaded with fruit. It will then be 

 necessary to cut out a good deal of the old wood, 

 to assist Nature to recover herself after producing 

 so great a quantity of fruit. This year the bushes 

 are so loaded that the branches are bent down to 

 the ground. 



Gooseberries are well worth paying attention to, 

 as they supply the table so amply till the wall fruit 

 comes in. 



There have been considerable additions made to 

 them, of late years, from the great attention that 

 has been paid, by the gardeners and others of Man- 

 chester and its neighbourhood, to raising Goose- 

 berries from seed. 



Their Catalogues now contain between four and 

 five hundred sorts or varieties ; but some are so 

 near each other as hardly to be distinguished. By 

 mixing up a rich soil to plant those in which have 

 been raised from seed, and by watering, shading, 

 and thinning the fruit, they have grown to a size 

 much larger than any that had ever been seen in 

 this country. They have made it their principal 

 study to improve this valuable fruit, and have given 

 great encouragement, by establishing societies for 

 distributing prizes annually to those who raise the 



