242 A TREATISE OF 



It is eafily raifed from layers, fuckers, 

 cuttings, or from feeds, and fliould be 

 trained up in the nurfery with a ftraight 

 flem : each tree fhould have fix, eight, or 

 more branches proceeding from it, for bear- 

 ers, about a foot from the ground -, and 

 that which is the mofl: upright muft be 

 tied to a ftraight flake, faftened in the 

 earth near the root -, and if the branch that 

 is tied up be more than a foot long, the top 

 muft be taken off, and the lower buds 

 likewife, leaving only fix or eight at the 

 upper end, in order to make (hoots, which 

 muft be ufed as the former bearers ^ and as 

 the ftem advances in height, preferve the 

 fame number of young fhoots at every foot 

 in height i but no upright fhoots muft be 

 fuffered to grow (except the ftem) nor any 

 branches to crofs one another. 



Such young fhoots as are defigned for 

 bearers, if their ends be dead, fhould be 

 fhortened a little in the fpring, which will 

 make the fruit much larger ; and it is alfo 

 neceffary, at the fame time, to take away 

 all fuckers from the root. 



The foil which a goofeberry bears the 

 beft fruit upon, and makes the moft lafting 



tree, 



