GOOSEBERRIES. 185 



Branches somewhat erect. Fruit early, large, 

 roundish-oblong, hairy, or somewhat bristly. 



22. SAUNDERS'S CHESHIRE LASS. No. 156. 

 Branches erect. Fruit very early, large, oblong, 



downy : excellent for tarts early in the spring, when 

 few are ready for that purpose. 



23. WELLINGTON'S GLORY. No. 195. 

 Branches erect. Fruit pretty early, large, somewhat 



ovate, very downy : excellent. 



24. WOODWARD'S WHITESMITH. No. 199. 



Branches erect. Fruit pretty early, large, roundish- 

 oblong, or somewhat ovate ; when highly ripened and 

 exposed to the sun the skin becomes brownish, very 

 downy : very excellent, and more in esteem than any 

 other gooseberry of this colour. 



This list, by far the most ample of any that has yet 

 appeared, will enable the grower to form a just estimate 

 of the comparative merit of the principal part of those 

 gooseberries which have been exhibited for prizes from 

 1825 to 1829 inclusive ; a period, probably, when horti- 

 culture has been as extensively encouraged, and flourished 

 as much, as at anytime of equal extent within our memory. 

 The first part will enable those who are desirous of ex- 

 hibiting the largest specimens in the dessert to choose 

 the heaviest kinds of the different colours, let his selec- 

 tion be large or small ; and, together, it will afford the 

 nurseryman the means of correcting his collection, if it 

 should happen to be wrong, and thus accomplish a two- 

 fold purpose, which will fully compensate for the space 

 it takes up in the present work. 



Propagation. 



Gooseberries are propagated by cuttings, in the same 

 manner as Currants ; but where strong cuttings cannot 



