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The pale yellow flowers are in single pendent clusters and are accompanied by bracts that 

 are longer than the pedicels. The fruit is a sour black berry. 



FLOWERS: in April. 



RANGE: North America; acclimatized in our gardens. 



The Cynobasti gooseberry, Ribes cynosbati, Linn., is a bush four or five feet high 

 with a straight stem. The branches, rather loose and spread out, have a small, straight 

 thorn at their base. The leaves are green, petiolate, with three or five lobes and crenate 

 margins. The flowers, two or three together in pendent clusters, are whitish green. The 

 calyx is covered with stiff bristles that remain on the fruit. 



FLOWERS: in April. 



RANGE: North America; acclimatized in our gardens. 



USES. A ratafia prepared with black currants acts as a tonic and a stomachic. In 

 former times the leaves and new shoots, taken as an infusion, were promoted as 

 stomachics, diuretics and aperients, but they're no longer used medicinally. Gooseberries 

 are used in sauces, as a substitute for verjuice grapes, and in seasoning for mackerel, but 

 in general they're not much valued in France. In England gooseberries are consumed in 

 all sorts of ways: in pastries, in plum pudding, and even to make a kind of wine that isn't 

 too bad. 



CULTIVATION. The bushes are easily propagated from cuttings and are suited to 

 almost all kinds of soil. They're never harmed by the cold, and they don't need to be 

 protected from it. 



KEY TO PLATES. 



572. Black currant bush. 1. Flowering branch. 2. Complete flower, longitudinal 

 section. 3. Fruit, transverse section. 



573. Gooseberry bush. 1. Complete flower, opened. 2. Red fruit. 3. Yellow fruit. 

 4. Fruit, transverse section. 



574. Pennsylvania currant bush. 1. Complete flower. 2. Same, opened. 



575. Cynosbati gooseberry bush. 1. Complete flower, opened. 



