168 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, 



Cherry, large red ; White Provence, white ; White Dutch, white j 

 Victoria, La Hative, La Fertile, Champagne, Red Dutch, Red Pro- 

 vence — valuable only as a curiosity — Striped Fruited, for same. 

 We have several new varieties, such as Attractor, Gloire de 

 Sablons, &c., which we have not fully tested yet ; some of them, 

 without doubt will be good, and perhaps supersede some of the 

 other kinds. The best variety of black currant is the Black 

 Naples. The effect of good cultivation of currants is shown by 

 those of the true Dutch variety, exhibited by Mr. Hite, who gives 

 his bushes good care, instead of leaving them, as most people do, 

 to take care of themselves. 



R. G. Pardee. — I believe that good cultivation and care will 

 enable any one in almost any locality to grow good gooseberries 

 free from mildew. In this I differ from Mr. Fuller, as I don't 

 believe that it is necessary for us to resort to the native sorts, 

 but we may at once procure the very choicest English varieties, 

 like some of the beautiful specimens exhibited here to-day, I 

 speak advisedly, when I say that I know that all the best varie- 

 ties of English gooseberries have been and can be cultivated upon 

 the renewal system, and mulching and not hot manure, so as to 

 produce the finest fruit free of mildew. Mr. Pardee indorsed the 

 fine flavor of the Versailles Currant, and also the white Provence, 

 the white Gondolier. He thinks the best gooseberry is Cromp- 

 ton's Sheba queen. He earnestly recommends every one to make 

 an effort to grow the very best kinds of gooseberries, as well as 

 every other kind of fruit, and thinks that nothing is better cal- 

 culated to encourage it than such exhibitions and conversations 

 as this. 



Andrew S. Fuller. — I wish to guard people from the idea that 

 they will get an improved variety of fruit by purchasing that 

 which has given remarkable resjilts from very high cultivation. 

 The currant will grow and produce fruit in almost any locality, 

 badly neglected; but the gooseberry will not grow in that way. 

 I know that the English gooseberry has failed in most places 

 under ordinary cultivation. But we have some very good native 

 gooseberries, that are perfectly hardy, and some of these have 

 been greatly improved, and I hope others will be, until we have 

 a native gooseberry as hardy as the wild one, and as good as the 

 best English ones, which are all seedlings from wild sorts, common 

 in Piedmont and France, 



