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CHAPTER XXVIII. 



On the Gooseberry Tree. 



GOOSEBERRY trees like a good deep strong 

 rich loamy soil, and almost any airy situ- 

 ation is suitable for them, but the crop is 

 most abundant when the situation is favour- 

 able to their protection in spring from the 

 cold east winds, which are frequently de- 

 structive to the blossom of those trees. Trees 

 of this kind may be planted in quarters by 

 themselves, in borders round the garden, or 

 so as to train them against a trellis. In 

 planting them in quarters, they ought to be 

 six feet apart in the rows, and eight feet 

 between the rows, and when it is designed 

 to plant them against a trellis, they must be 

 planted nearer or farther apart, according to 

 the height of the trellis. A trellis of five 

 feet high is what I prefer, for when it is 

 higher it will shade the next row of trees 

 behind, unless the trellis be fixed so as to 

 point from south to north, but they are best 

 when constructed from east to w r est, as the 

 trees have the full advantage of the sun. 

 Trees planted against a trellis as described, 

 should be set four feet apart in the rows, and 

 six feet betwixt the rows. In planting the 



