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gooseberries only. In this stage the fruit will carry- 

 almost any distance in first-class condition, and need 

 not be sold the day it arrives. Ten -pound grape 

 baskets are the most satisfactory packages for shipping 

 and general market purposes, though the quart berry 

 baskets ai-e still much used. It is a pleasure to pack 

 this fruit for shipment. It is so clean and solid, and 

 there is a feeling of security that it will remain so 

 until it reaches the consumer. The markets are sel- 

 dom overstocked, though P. T. Quinn stated before 

 the Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Association in Phila- 

 delphia, in 1872,* that he had seen 1,000 barrels 

 thrown overboard for want of a market. To this 

 Charles Downing added that they ought to be all 

 dumped into the river, which shows that the goose- 

 berry was not a favorite with him. 



USES 



The fruit is commonly used in pies, stewed, canned 

 or for jelly. That it makes a good jelly is evidenced 

 by an ingenious process of imitating it reported by 

 the Gardener's Monthly for 1884, page 204, which 

 states that gooseberry jelly is made from seaweed, 

 the color being given by fuchsine or similar material, 

 and the flavor by a mixture of acetic ether, tartaric 

 acid and other substances. 



The good qualities of the gooseberry are not con- 

 fined to the green state, and there is a growing 



*Hoi-tieulturist, 1872:112. 



