GOOSEBERRIES. 



Tj^NGLAND is apparently the home of the gooseberry. 

 "There," says a recent writer in the Canadian Farmer, 

 ""the fine, large, handsome varieties they successfully grow 

 are almost endless ; but to attempt to reproduce these under 

 our conditions of climate, would only result in disappoint- 

 ment and total failure." 



Some of these English varieties undoubtedly will do 

 well in Colorado. We have but little testimony to produce 

 in this connection, as the general cultivation of this fruit 

 has not been attempted. But in El Paso County, on sandy 

 soil, W. H. Bush, of Colorado Springs, has raised berries 

 of the White Smith and Crown Bob varieties, that for size 

 and quality are not often it is said exceeded in the great 

 gooseberry districts of England and Scotland. 



Mr. A. N. Hoag has three varieties the Houghton, * 

 Wentworth and Downing. The Houghton, he says, is hard 

 to beat. It is very hardy and prolific. 



Mr. H. G. Wolff says: The Houghton Seedling is the 

 principal variety grown in Colorado ; but the Downing, 

 Smith's Improved and some of the English sorts will do 

 equally well and pay much better than the Houghton. 



Says J. H. Newcomb: The fruit is gaining in popular- 

 ity and importance every year ; the demand from our moun- 

 tain towns cannot be supplied for years. The Houghton is 

 the most extensively planted and perhaps the most produc- 



