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evi Groffularia. 
meen oy sherries are of divers forts and colours, asred, blue; 
Mi yellow, white, and green ; fome of them reund, others 
Mi long ; fome {mooth, and others prickly, . 
Of red Goosberries there are three forts, one {mall 
: and round, feldom bearing ; another bigger and a little 
flat, but no very good bearer ; the thirdis called the Damfon Goos- 
berry, this isa good bearer, the Berries large, round, and red, and 
(when full ripe) with a blue tincture over them likea Damfon, 
The blue Goosberry hath the Berries thinly fet on the branches, 
which are fmall, alittle long, and of a dark red colour, tin@ured over 
with blue, 
Tellow Goosberries are of feveral forts, ote large; round, and 
fmooth ; others leffer ; fome long and prickly, of which there are 
two forts chiefly efteemed ; the firft round, {mooth, large and good, 
ofa bright yellow colour, and called the Amber Goosberry 5 the other 
is large, long, and prickly, of adeep yellow colour and good tafte, 
and is called the great Hedge-hog Goosberry. 
_, The white Hallandscvoberrys chic fateh, biggelt, and belt bearer 
Sfall others ; the Berries are large; tound, {mooth, white, tranfpa- 
reiit, and well-fafted. : : 
The green Goosberry is of two forts, one bigger and longer than the 
other, both very green and good, but the bigger is moft efteemed, 
Goosberries are propagated by Suckers, Layers or Cuttings, I have 
‘a Goosbenry-bufh that from one ftem beareth four feveral-coloured 
Berries, effected by Budding, the Amber, Dam{on, and Green, upon 
feveral branches of the white. Thofe that defire the like curiofity. 
muft in Winter prune and prepare the Stock, leaving thereon three 
branches onely; and at the Spring rub off all buds that @ome forth in 
other places ;. about Mid/omer put in the Buds taken from the big- 
geft Lanees, whichafrer they are grown tofome bignefs, one Bud 
of the fiatural Stock may be fuffered to'grow to make four forts ; the 
Stock muft be kept from Suckers, the Lances in Somer ftopped, and 
pruned in Winter, that one draw not more Sap than another, 
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