Yield 295 



ally it will be found more profitable to discard them after 

 ten or twelve years. Replanting is not expensive, and the 

 younger plants will be more vigorous and bear finer fruit. 

 A slight difference in the quantity and quality of crops 

 will soon offset the cost of replanting. No rule as to 

 number of years can be valid, for of two plantations of 

 the same age, one may still be perfectly satisfactory and 

 the other wholly unprofitable, owing to differences in 

 treatment and conditions. In commercial work, a safe 

 rule will be to replant as soon as the first trace of waning 

 vigor can be detected. It is not a question of how long 

 they will continue to bear well, but of which will prove 

 the more profitable, the old planting, with its regular care, 

 or a new one, with the added expense of another planting. 

 If these points were carefully weighed, replanting would 

 doubtless be much more frequent than it now is. 



HARDINESS 



Cold has apparently no effect on the gooseberry, at 

 least such temperatures as are likely to be reached any- 

 where in the United States, and even far to the north. 

 It stands unprotected through our severest winters with- 

 out the loss of a bud, but if moved southward it soon be- 

 comes uncomfortable. It cannot endure scorching sum- 

 mer suns. 



YIELD 



Full grown plants, vigorous and well cared for, ought 

 to yield from five to eight quarts to the plant, or, roughly 

 speaking, from 300 to 500 bushels to the acre, with plants 



