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ticulture, ami many are HOW living who FCCOlied his 

 beautiful flower garden, almost the only one of oote 

 in Lynn in those early days. Mr. Houghton was nol a 

 native of Lynn, as we anderstand it. and there are no 



adanta of his that we know "t\ He was called 

 Abel Soughton, Jr., bo we infer that his father's 

 name was Abel. Mr. Honghton died many years ago, 

 but when our society was organized, about twenty 

 years ago, many of the chief promoters of the move- 

 ment, recalling the lovely flower garden of Abel 

 Houghton, Jr., decided to pass his name down l>y 

 having it placed in Article I. of our Constitution." 



The second development in the evolution of Amer- 

 ican gooseberries was 1 1 1 * - production of a seedling 

 of the Houghton by Downing, at Newburgh, X. Y. 



The earliest a nnt of it I know is by "Rustieus," in 



the "Horticulturist " for L853, as 

 follows: "Downing's Seedling Goose- 

 berry, the Largesl yel known, being 

 about twice the Bize of Houghton's 

 Uing, it- parent. Pale or lighl 

 green, without anj blush, and smooth. 

 Tin- skin is very thin, ami the fruit 

 a- delicate and tender as an} European 

 gooseberry in its native soil. The 

 flavor ami aroma are perfect : sweet, 

 with plent} of vinous subacid. The ' ■ 

 flrsl aescriber -a\ - : I experienced 

 tli'- same satisfaction a- I did in tast- 

 ing the Delaware and Rebecca grapes. It comes up to the 



English varieties in our very differen! climate.' 1 

 Tins berry, now known u the Downing, is the 



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