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I regrel that the specimens are only the gleaning 

 tour bnshes, my whole stock of this kind. This 

 gooseberry is a seedling, called here Eonghton's. It, 

 I have no donbt, was raised from seed from onr 

 native gooseberry. It- leaf, as yon will perceive by 

 the enclosed shoot, bears evidence of this origin. 

 This is the only gooseberry cultivated that does not 

 mildew nnder any circumstances. The cultivators in 

 Lynn, Mass., where this fruit originated, have grown 

 it for three <>r four years, and their testimony accords 

 with my assertion. The growth i> exceedingly thrifty. 

 making long pendent shoot-, similar to an English 

 variety called 'Crown Bob.' I have nineteen table 

 varieties, received four years Bince from Cunningham 

 is, Liverpool, and for my taste, Eonghton's Seed- 

 ling surpasses them all, notwithstanding the fruit is 

 not so large as the European varieties. Most of the 

 fruits I now send you, were taken from shoots grown 

 within one inch of the soil. I have picked al leasl 

 ten quarts of fruit from four bushes, which were 

 layers two years since. I think that the Eonghton's 

 Seedling will supplanl almost every foreign variety 

 from our soil. The long .-hoots which spring from 

 th<- bottom of the stock often take root themselves. 

 It will be a fine variety for training, as it makes I < • 1 1 lt 

 shoot-, ;iml fruits prodigiously, even to the extreme 

 end i »f i he previous j ear's growt h . 



" Yours very truly, in haste, 



".l.niN M. hi:-. 

 August 15, 1M7." 



I: 'In- i- ;i seedling from an indigenous goose- 

 berry, a- it appears to be, and one which, being 

 entirely adapted t ir climate, never mildews, it 



