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SUTHERLAND'S SEEDLING 

 GOOSEBERRIES. 



73. Sir,— I send you by express to-day a 

 sample of my seedling gooseberry. It is a 

 chance seedling, and as Downing was the 

 only variety grown in the garden where it 

 originated, I presume it to be a straight 

 seedling of that variety. It has fruited four 

 years, bears enormous crops each year, and 

 has never shown the slightest sign of mildew. 

 I have grown Industry and Whitesmith for 

 two years in the same row ; both have mil- 

 dewed. For size and quality the seedling 

 will compare favorably with the largest and 

 best, and as a cropper it will easily distance 

 any gooseberry I have yet seen. The bush 

 is a strong, upright grower ; resembles Down- 

 ing, but stronger. What do you think of 

 the berry ? — Geo. Sutherland, Meaford. 



We consider this a remarkably fine ap- 

 pearing berry. What we want for profit is 

 a gooseberry larger than the Smith or the 

 Downing, measuring between three and four 

 inches in circumference, that is equally pro- 

 ductive with these varieties and equally free 

 from mildew. In this berry we appear to 

 have these qualifications. In color it is a 

 light green and in appearance resembles the 

 Whitesmith rather than the Downing. 



Mr. Thos. Beall says of this gooseberry : 



" The berry is about the size of the White- 

 smith and colored almost exactly like it, and 

 the veining is the same, but the berry is much 

 longer. The quality of the fruit is inferior 

 to that of any variety of which I have any 

 knowledge." 



A COLD VINERY. 



74. Sir, — I have about made up my mind 

 to put up a cold grapery, as the season here 

 is so short. I am thinking of building a wall 

 from the house to the barn, some fifty feet, 

 say ten or twelve feet high, and putting up a 

 lean-to building twelve or fourteen feet wide. 

 But, if I build the wall of brick, I shall re- 

 quire to make calculations for ventilation, or 

 everything will be burned up. I intend to 

 plant apricot and peach trees against the 

 wall. Have you any such building near 

 you, or could you recommend me a place 

 where I am likely to get the desired informa- 

 tion, as no one here knows anything about 

 constructing such a building? — A. J. Col- 

 lins, Lntowel, Out. 



Mr. A J. Downing, in his work entitled 

 " The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America," 

 gives the following directions for the culture 

 of grapes under glass without artificial heat : 

 "The great superiority of this fruit, when 

 raised under glass, renders a vinery an indis- 

 pensable feature in every extensive garden. 

 Even without fire heat, 'grapes may, under our 

 bright sun, be grown admirably ; the sudden 

 changes of the weather being guarded against 

 and the warmth and uniformity of the atmo- 

 sphere surrounding the vines, being secured. 

 Cheap structures of this kind are now yery 

 common, and even the Muscat of Alexandria 

 and other sorts which are usually thought to 

 require fire heat ripen regularly and well 

 with moderate attention. 



' ' A vinery of this kind may be erected so as 

 to cost very little, nearly after the following 

 manner : Its length may be thirty feet, its 

 width sixteen feet, height at the front two 

 feet, at the back twelve feet. This par of 

 the structure may all be built of wood, tak" 

 ing for the frame cedar or locust posts, set- 

 ting them three and a half feet in the ground, 

 the portion rising above the ground being 

 squared to four or five inches. On these 

 posts (which are placed six feet apart) nail 

 on both sides matched and grooved planks, 

 one and a quarter inches thick. The space 

 between these planks, not occupied by the 

 post, fill in with dry tan, which should be 

 well rammed down. The rafters should be 

 fixed, and from three to four feet apart. The 

 sashes forming the roof (which is all the 

 glass that will be necessary) should be 

 stationary, ventilation being given by small 

 windows at the top of the back wall, fitted 

 with hinges, to be opened or shut at pleasure 

 by means of a pulley cord. The building 

 will, of course, front the south, and the door 

 may be at either end. 



' ' The border for the grapes should be made 

 partly on the inside and partly on the outside 

 of the front wall, so that the roots of the 

 vines may extend through the open border. 

 A trellis of wire should be fixed to the rafters 



